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"I'm not a popular bard... I'm a poet. I write my own poems, which only pretend to be songs, and I only pretend to sing them. Why is a middle-aged man suddenly, not knowing how to sing, not knowing how to properly accompany himself on guitar, did he take a chance and start doing it? Probably because all of us - both there and here - have been lied to for too long with well-trained voices. It's time to tell the truth. And if you don't have a singing voice, then maybe there is a human, civic voice, and maybe that's sometimes more important than having bel canto." These words of Alexander Galich (1918-1977), spoken a quarter of a century ago, sound quite topical...