Maybe a reason that the Corries' image was, by today's standards, perhaps embarrassingly slick, was because that was the mainstream entertainment standard of the time - the Scottish TV era of kilted tenors. I readily confess that their brilliant understanding of creating an image, by way of the Arran sweaters et al, blinded me also at the time to the super music content. (I would still love one of those jerkin/shirts they used to wear as an alternative to the Arran sweaters - kinda Errol Flynn playing Robin Hood, if you know what I mean!) And what still fascinates me about their sound is, and I think I'm right in this at a distance of 30 years, that they always played nylon-strung guitars... didn't they?

A' the best -Ian B