OK Villan, we're getting somewhere. You include John Connolly and George Papavgeris in the canon of "folksong", but not Queen and Elton John. So, two questions. What is about Fiddlers Green that is more "about real life" than Elton John's or Queen's songs(as that is apparently your crierion for choice)? And the most relevant question , you howl with rage at Shimrod for excluding songwriters from the category of folk,calling him a purist and folk-police or whatever and all that stuff, but you do exactly the same thing?
    And Jeri, you really are being extraordinarily unfair to Shimrod by accusing him of trying to ban George Papavgeris and all that sort of thing. When has the poor lad said any such thing? It's really bad manners to accuse people of things you know perfectly well they are innocent of. Shimrod, like Villan, and George P, and all of us, has his own defintion of "folk". These definitions may differ. That does not mean that Shimrod is trying to ban George, or that Villan is trying to ban Queen.