from the influences you mention I doubt if you would be ethnic sounding enough for the traddy crowd in England. basically you have to swallow the gospel as proposed by Ewan to propitiate them.

This is bollocks.

independent spirits such as your own Don, people who have striven creatively to find their own understanding - well you may be tolerated, but you'd never be part of the gang.

This is Al over-generalising from his own experience.

a very narrow pathway of conformity is the only way. the same songs delivered as much as possible in the same way. miserable sods really - you sound far too nice.

And we're back to bollocks.

Utter, utter bollocks.