So...
Considering the Singers of Olde, who sang what we now call "folk" or "traditional" songs (there's a difference?) when they were fresh and new -- d'ya think they called THEMSELVES "Folk Singers"? Did any of their contemporaries use the term? Or is that a label only applied since the mid-20th-century when record companies needed to know which rack in the store to put an album on to facilitate the consumer?