shambles...Bill D has been reading this thread...wondering how to catch up and clear the air..*grin*...methinks 'tis not possible.

(At our festival last weekend, I had a crafts table...and the stage that faced me featured Singer/songwriters much of the 2 days...arrrgghhh!! Some was 'ok', but some was just 'cookie cutter' thumping and chanting.*sigh*)....

One more time...SOMEONE has to write songs, or there wont be any....some songs are good, some are not...but it is a matter of taste which. I truly like some recently written songs...but they are NOT folk/trad. If I am at home, playing music (live OR on the machine) I do not differentiate. If I go out to buy, or pay to hear, music, I DO differentiate, because certain kinds of music ****TEND**** to be more to my taste, and I want some sort of filter out there where I am severely outnumbered!