Overheard at the Cambridge Folk Festival

How about a sea shanty? Actually, how about a disco sea shanty? We found it in the Oxford Book of Disco Sea Shanties.
   - Bellowhead intro

You people at the very back - did you enjoy Nanci Griffith... from a distance?
   - Opening remarks from Shooglenifty, the final act on Sunday night, following the incomparable Nanci, who did sing mostly crowd-pleasing hits

Only people who think they are cool don't like "Imagine".
   - Irate fellow punter to me, after he overheard my remarking that I was disappointed in Joan Baez' selection of closing song (IMHO, Lennon in trite, dreary mood). Joan did score the most cool points earlier, however, with a goose-pimple inducing version of Tom Waites' Day After Tomorrow.

The sumbitch wasn't plugged into the motherf@cker.
   - Steve Earle explaining temporary mandolin technical amplification hitch. Gee, these musicians do have some unique jargon, don't they?