"It's local music from out there, rooted in a tradition. It is music with a sense of roots, place and community. And it is very much easier to define what it is not."

..well that seems well in accord with why some of us
who were young adults back in the late 70's

seriously considered our enthusiastic expression
of cheap electric guitars home-grown provincial 'punkrock'

to be our evolving topical community 'folk' music..!!!???