Is that how you really see anyone who does not comply with your view of folk music, Jim? "The Enemy"? Do you genuinely see things you like as "exquisitely listenable" while anything not to your taste is "electric soup totally devoid of interpretation"? Such provocative language should, in my opinion, be reserved for populist politicians. Here we are all on the same side. I suspect everyone agrees on what folk is for 80% of any given examples.

But, as has been said before, this is not about the past. It is about now and the future. Given that the world is massively different to when the folk revival was in its heyday, how do we ensure that the tradition survives while "new folk" is given the chance to grow and flourish? Given that you are no longer interested in folk clubs, Jim, what do you see as the way forward?