People tend to get sick of something when it's overdone. The novelty of Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renbourne, Pierre Bensusan was wonderful, intersting and stimulating. But once everybody starts doing it, it loses its appeal. Don Meixner, I agree about the bouzouki in Irish/Celtic/ Gaelic music too. Johnny Moynihan, Donal Lunny and Andy Irvine started a great sounding new trend, but it's been beaten to death. As for the elitists who look down their noses at the Wild Rover, the Unicorn (Shel Silverstein never wrote a bad song!), the Black velvet Band et al., they are all fine songs that can stand up with any. They have great audience recognition/appeal. But they have been done to a turn.