Yes, Pete Morton is a songwriter.   It's one of the things he does. He's also long been a performer of traditional material, particularly border ballads and a lot of his own work is 'in the tradition' or a development thereof. Being a bloke, he wouldn't qualify as a Daughter of Albion anyway.

Who is this 'in crowd'? Sounds to me that 'Guest' is talking about those for whom 'madlizzie' had invented the term 'traditionalist', meaning apparently that they don't confine their listening to what the latest MOR snigger-snogger brought out last week.

To return to topic, the BBC-4 transmission of the second FB concert served as a rather disappointing conclusion to a series which, at times, had moments which MAY have persuaded just a few outsiders that 'our' music was worthy of their further consideration. That was not one of them.