Definitions of whether someone is traditional or revival may not be important when singing or listening to a song, but it is when discussing singing and it certainly is when writing about it.
I suggest that we would no more abandon our definitions of songs and singing than we would go into a grocers and ask for a tin of soup.
I believe that all of us have very clear definitions of what we mean by the terms we use (though we may not always agree on other's definitions), but it's hard not to notice that some of us have a tendency to claim we don't define things when we find ourselves getting the worst of a discussion.
The same argument applies to those who claim to be far too busy playing or singing to bother with definintions. It would be a very unimaginative musician whose thoughts never stray further than where to put their fingers or how hard to blow.
Jim Carroll
PS Cap'n - still trying to work out what I wrote that you disagreed with in my earlier posting on this thread - ah well!