As I said, far too much to expect peeps to actually read what's written. Those plopping pigeons have been by again.

she's a damn folk musician

No I'm not.
The very word 'f*lk', meaningless and abused as it is, is why most people fail the grasp the faintest notion of what it actually is.
Should be binned forthwith.
And, as mentioned, I haven't done a paid gig for decades.

Want a list of dialects?

No. I've already quoted the academically accepted list of two mainland Britain dialects. kR is singing a shit song in her native Barnsley accent. It's hard to know why.

horribly skewed impression of English music

It's not just the damaging nonsense of flagging up recordings of fakesong imitations such as this. A US radio station was at it the other day, peddling pop band SoH as though it were 'English music'. It bloody well isn't.

You lot might be content to wallow in a morass of MOR, R2-generated pap indistinguishable from the rest of the mainstream shit. Some even talk of 'f*lk crossover hits'. All around my bleedin' hat on a day trip to Bangor, presumably. I won't be ceasing any time soon from urging everyone to come away (Melinda) and bang the door very tight shut.

A couple of nights ago someone started a thread just to get away from this lowest common denominator dumbing down on what CDs to lend to a newcomer. Should be an entrance test before anyone is permitted even to open their mouths about English music. Define your subject matter before you speak. Ha! Some hope.