hear a violin than a guitar; I was always like "it's not heavy enough". I'm told that it's changed me, even down to the way I dress ? somebody who hadn't seen me for years was shocked to see me in a floaty dress & boots. Yes. While I still prefer traditional folk music to folk-pop (or folk-Roc or whatever they're calling it) I started out with a fascination for instrumental music. As the tears passed, my interest has shifted more to vocal music. I think if you truly like something you'll always come back to it. There were no other Steeleye albums in the house, so I assumed that was how they'd always sounded, & that they'd just done that one album. Then when I was dragged to see them, & I heard the song at the end ('Gaudete'), I was transfixed. I wrote this after their gig ? an early Xmas present of sorts ? in dad's Xmas card. I had a gig booked up for me; I nearly did not go; I cannot share thoughts on yon gig, For those my age never shall know. Your good taste it hath now become mine; It once made me lament; Oh how I longed to be different Now I wish I'd shown some sense My hands they shook just like the leaves, My head was like a sieve When I tell people what did occur, They all lose the will to live. Whenever I feel wretched; And wish the