The reason I have become a non member is that I don't want to get tempted into one of the many games of cowboys and indians that you and your mates have running below the line, Steve. It just ends up with name calling and silliness.

this thread is something different. It is about how people who have spent much of their lives working in the medium of folk music view their roles, and the respective roles of main players in the game - their philosophy.

to me Jim Carroll is most compelling when he talks about his own engagement with singers rather and his own motivation, rather than swapping shots with the 'meaning of life' brigade. you have the feeling none of them could climb into the ring and do a couple of rounds with a genuine philosopher. Its all instinct and woolly thinking.

Similarly Brian Peters is a singer and performer and musician that I have enormous respect for. i would love to hear of his thoughts behind his role, and how he delineates his bailliewick.

definition is for entymologists and crossword puzzles.