Anyway, what was I talking about? Corn dollies? The Golden Bough? No - that was it: hollyhocks! I do get confused with this computer business - particularly in view of the fact that I'm just an illustration - but before I go off the line I'd love to tell you about this book that I've been featured in, along with lots of other music-loving sorts (although I have to confess I don't know what a Bass Thug is - who'd want to bully a poor, innocent fish?). The Sunday Times called it "the hottest new music book" and you can read more about it HERE and find out how to get 34% off the cover price. The author tells me he likes Pentangle and The Trees, just like me, but I'm not sure if I believe it: he's young enough to be my son! Anyway, it does give me hope that a new generation are starting to listen to pastoral sounds. Have you heard these bands The Circulus and The Tongue who are in my friends list? Ah, it takes me back to when I was a much younger, more lascivious old folkie with only one thing on my mind (folk). 1969, just to the left of the stage at Les Cousins, meeting that man with the Jethro Tull beard who loaned me the Aleister Crowley biography. Ooh! That reminds me! I must get the Vauxhall Viva serviced!P.S. This is what one of Old Folkie's favourite writers, Kate Atkinson (Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Case Histories), said about The Lost Tribes Of Pop:""Very funny... Always perceptive, never cruel. If you don’t recognize one of these characters then you must have stayed in your room for the last ten years, which I guess would also make you a member of a lost tribe..."
