'Both were a little outclassed by the more versatile Dubliners and (how I hate to say it!) Irish Rovers.'

I find that an odd take.

I came to the Corries much later than most of you, I'd imagine, when they were long past their hey-day; having never heard of them, I had no pre-conceptions. In fact, I don't know how I came across them; maybe I bought a second-hand LP on speculation. However, I was, and still am, thoroughly impressed by a lot of their stuff. OTOH, I can understand that they might have been over-exposed, and if every second night when you turned on the TV, there they were, you might get a little weary of their schtick. I was late enough to the game, btw, that the 'image' thing of theirs just seemed amusingly quaint, like platform shoes and bell-bottoms .....