Sorry Jeri - should have been five fucks

"Jim, have you ever considered reading people's posts and NOT l"
I have readall the posts aimed at me and have bent over backwards to answer them
I' only get pissed off when I am insulted - ter rest of the time I am argumentative - fifty odd years of active participation during which time I have been helped the giants on the scene - from MacColl and Seeger to Lomax, should, at the very least give me the right to do that
It would be far more helpful if people pointed iut what I am missing rather than alluding to it, as you are now
If you want a fanzine forum full of nodding dogs you need to say so and I'll go elsewhere
It seems to have escaped everyone's notice that while Irish Traditional Music is going from strength to strength and Scots music screams its identity from the rooftops on sites like 'Kist o' Riches', the best England can offer is "nobody kknows what folk song is any more and we don't want to talk about it"
I've lost touch with the US scene, but am left with the impression that the real stuff is locked away in the Lib. of Cong. and the public scene is virtually non-existent - would be happy to learn that is not the case
The Enlish scene is a bit of a battlefield at present, crtainly on the academic front where the new lot are desperately trying to unravel over a century's worth of research
If Mudcat can no longer reflect the differences and controversies that are taking place then it's about time for it to fold its tent and describe itself as something else
I have no problem with teh traditional description of the tradition, if others have, then they need to spell it out
Yours respectfully ((sort of)
Jim