Thing is Art, a lot of these people above arguing about the nature of folk music - the purity of its terms, sources and the like....

Well if they heard Dean Martin singing Gentle on My Mind on the radio, they would embrace a fiery death rather than acknowledge its relationship to the folk process.

And it really not THAT big a jump. The only thing that pisses them off is that an artist has found an access point to folk music for simple folk - tatally uncommitted t the world of 'folk music' proper.