" Walter Pardon, is fair criticism is it not?"
No it most certainly is not
Since I came to this music it has been an unspoken convention that you do not attack our traditional singers (our benefactors), not in public and certainly not when they are dead
They gave us our songs - without them we wouldn't be talking to each other - but their world was not ours
Many of them were well past their prime when they were discovered, but somehow they managed to make the songs work far better than some of the latest manifestations
They are not "performers" in the same way those of us who perform choose to be
I have never if all my years here seen an openly critical attack on a traditional singer - never
This is part of the nastiness of the new folk scene
If you can't see that dave we occupy different parts of the folk planet
This individual will be digging Walter up next to give him a regular kicking just as so many folkies do with MacColl
Jim