Interesting, I was playing Ancora on the way to/from seeing John Kirkpatrick last night. I know Flook played at Cropredy one year, but I have no memory of it, and only discovered them some years later.
JK was great - it was in a small narrow room, seating only about 50 people, and I can imagine that in some ways was probably like the experience of some of the early folk clubs in the 60s (with probably some of the same people in the audience too
). He must be the same sort of age as Ashley H and Martin Carthy, but shows no signs of age slowing him down - his voice is as strong as ever, as is his mastery of the various squeezy boxes. We got a good mixture of tunes and songs - original and traditional, as well as some surprising choices, finishing up with Leiber & Stoller's I’ve Got Them Feelin’ Too Good Today Blues from an obscure Peggy Lee album (blues singer complains because life is going too well for them!).
