It occurred to me whilst reading some of the threads here that touch on people's different tastes in folk music, that my own seem to have changed over the years. I've moved away from the traditional unaccompanied style, much of which I respect but now find rather boring, and now tend to prefer either more 'radical' interpretations (Oysterband, Bellowhead, Imagined Village) or the work of good (not always well-known) singer/songwriters. Having recently purchased CDs of music that I loved in the 1970s, such as early Albion Band and Mr Fox, these now have a rather dated sound that mrsleveller (Jools) finds hilariously 'hippie'. Do you reckon your tastes have changed over the years?or do you still like the same stuff you did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago? Or both? I don't think my musical tastes have changed with regard to folk music...however I am, perhaps, more discriminating now! "Liege and Lief" still sounds as good today as it did all those years ago, but I feel many of the self-penned works or interpretations of traditional songs haven't stood the test of time very well! It started for me with my sister's copy of Basket of light - still a wonderful album, incidentally. Then there was Steeleye Span, of whom I was a big fan up until they hooked up with Mike Batt (ugh). But then there was punk, and I didn't really listen to any of this stuff again until after I'd started performing, which was about 25 years