Lamarca made a point earlier about most British musicians chasing American music, skiffle and blues: this majority was contrasted with Martin carthy and Ewan mcColl, who were interested in our own heritage. I think that is highly misleading...Carthy and McColl were bot American folk music, like everybody else, Carthy in skiffle, McColl singing "John Henry", all the usual thing. They moved on, as did so many, to an interest in folk music. They were defiinitely not a contrast to the people you describe, Lamarca, they were part of them. We all started of on Leadbelly/Guthrie etc. Joseph Taylor and Walter Pardon came later!