You know, i'm thirty three. I started singing in clubs when I was 17 or so. Why? cos I'd been listening to The Dubs, The Clancys ( Four Green Fields has been a staple of mine for years and it still sends a shiver down my spine when I hear it), Pentangle, Steeleye, Simon and Garfunkle and the Corries. Then I started getting into the other musicians such as June Tabor, Dick gaughan, the Watersons ad nauseum or etc or whatever. Then I started being a folk snob and saying that the Corries and The Clancys where crap, then I grew up. This is folk music people ( folk= people) it means getting down a few jars and laughing crying, complainin', listening to a few tunes and maybe having a bit of a bop. Where does anyone get off being so damned precious. Yeah the history and background of songs is cool, and good to know, it's interesting. But it ain't the history that makes the song, or who has the right version..it's the feeling that you put into it. I have seen some blinding singers who have stuck their all into a set one night, and another time have been crap, why? Because they didn't feel like it that night or they were tired of that particular song. The Corries et al. were primarily people who sang songs to entertain folks (us)and they did it damn well.