Naive maybe. But sometimes when you need an earth mover, what you need isn't a bulldozer, it's a spade.

There's an analogy (not a one-to-one analogy)with the way that every now and then you have to reboot a computer and start it again.

The folk boom years came out of a particular period in which a lot of things were suddenly coming to light which had been nearly destroyed. There was a relatively small number of people playing the music well enough to get by, and a larger number interested enough to make it possible for a living to be made. Maybe something like that will happen again some time, things go in cycles.

But right now there is probably a much larger number of people around who are playing the music, all kinds of music. That's what really matters.

(And if anyone who's been offered a free copy of InOBU's Sorcha Dorcha CD doesn't take it up, they can't be too into good music.)