Jim - I wasn't referring to the Scottish song more recently posted as I haven't listened to that - I was commenting on the Jon Doran song I briefly listened to. My point stands - you prefer songs not to be sung with instrumental interludes. I am quite happy, and indeed often prefer, them to be sung with them. My attention span is long enough to accommodate the interludes between the words. It is still a folk song, sung by a folk singer and to my ears a lot more enjoyable and, importantly, engaging, than listening to many unaccompanied songs.

That is my preference - the presentation of the song is neither wrong nor right. It is as equally folk as if it were sung unaccompanied, or indeed if it was in a band arrangement or in an electronica setting.

We all have different tastes in how songs are presented - it doesn't mean that any of us can claim that only their preference is the only truly folk presentation