An emerging British folk music scene: archive, 15 October 1963

The modest boom is showing every sign of turning into a super colossal folkburger, with plenty of chips on every plate and juice there for the squeezingThere has been a minor folk-song boom for as long as most addicts can remember. Nothing spectacular, nothing bloated, but steady, devoted, sure - a lasting, rippling tide of interest.It started in the mid-fifties when skiffle’s bubble burst. Skiffle was really a convenient compromise, folksy and portentous enough to engross those repulsed b