later. As an unaccompanied singer I came to loathe folk-rock, mainly because those arrangements are so hard to adapt ("One morning in the month of May, 2, 3,/When all the birds were a-singing, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, and/") I was stunned by my first, belated encounter with Anne Briggs (" so that's how you do it! "), and more recently stunned all over again by John Kelly (" so that's how you do it! "). I'm on a 4:4 kick at the moment, although it's not the folk-rock kind of 4:4. Among contemporary artists, I very much liked Espers' first album (not the second); James Yorkston does some nice material, although his interpretation's not very exciting. If we're talking singer-songwriters, Peter Blegvad's probably my favourite (assuming we get Dylan thrown in, like the Bible and Shakespeare). So ultimately I'm with Mr Happy: yes, rather a lot over the years, and in more specific ways since I've been performing. And no, given that I was listening to Peter Blegvad (and Dylan, and Pentangle) 30 years ago. Where in the 60's 70's I was into the more trad stuff...interlaced with Dylan and Donovan.....I eventually beame a fan of Steeleye Span and travelled to see them often.....What is acceptable as Folk music now (GEFF as someone put it) is bound to influence many followers and much more variety is accepted in general. Still write with a traditional style but tastes have changed as to what I listen to. I came into