Drummer,Jack Hudson's class has nothing to do with his lack of commercial success. There are a million and one reasons why minority music does not break through. Class isn't one of them. Jack is more country than anything else, excellent, yes, but not country like American country. You need to be brash,plasticsurgeonised,beautiful, young, and sing crap lyrics to succeed in that field. Jack isn't any of these. So he falls between the cracks in English culture.
As to the Trad/ New arguement it's been going on for as long as I've been in the folk world (over 40 years). Personally, the trad music scene is a nice museum for a day out to me. Lots to see, hear and learn from. But those who don't learn from history are set to repeat it, and I don't go much for sterile repetition.
I visit the museum with pleasure, but then I like to leave it and take the air and find what the world of today has to offer that did learn from the past.