"All traditional music was once new"

I remember having a distinguished English songwriter on my radio show a couple of years ago, who was talking about being treated with contempt by a Folk Club booker because he wasn't TRADITIONAL enough.

"My gawd, SOMEBODY wrote the damn songs 400 years ago, they didn't emerge from under a rock. If I have to wait another few hundred years to be able to sing my own songs in a folk club I'll starve to death"!

Rick