When I was approx 13 and spending my pocket money on my first 45rpm singles,
the two main pop chart infuencers on my emerging music preferences
were Glam Rock and Folk Rock...

Any UK mudcatters now in their 60s may recall a similar mass media lead entry into folk music...???

This primed my curiosity for exploring the Trad Folk LPs in the town library,
later on when I was at 6th Form College,
and listening to Pentangle LPs at a local hippy squat...

Nobody here disputes the importance and need for folk clubs.
But, some may be over-estimating their influence on the state of UK folk music
since their own youth in the 1950s and 1960s...???????????????????????



[Is that enough "????"s...???
but apparently need to make it very very clear when I am posing a question,
and not stating it as fact, or provocation...]