This thread has been quite amazing in its own way! I started it as I had 'discovered' Kate Rusby for myself...especially singing this one song which appealed to me. I didn't suggest it was F*lk music or that Kate is a F*lk singer or that it was 'good enough for f*lk'. Neither did I say the way she pronounces 'jungle' is unique or different from many other Yorkshire accents...we have had an argument about dialects/accents...on which subject another thread was started.
David Crystal was cited as the expert from whom the supposed fact that there are only two dialects in England had originated. Having read through David Crystals website and others related to it..it would appear he acknowledges that there are many 'dialects' some of which are 'new'.
I respect many opinions which have been given but will always fail to accept the 'holier than thou' attitude exhibited by anyone who thinks their knowledge outshines us mere backwoods mortals.
Since the days when songs were sung by drunken gentlemen...well O.K labourers.....at the end of harvest and sailors on board ship....those songs have become known as Folk songs.....traditional of course....but times are changing and so is the mode of song that appears in the Folk/accoustic/open mic genre.....I guess we have to live with it to some degree...everything changes over time. We do too. Progress is not always good but whatever we do to try to hold on to from the past...we can't! So can we not enjoy whatever music appeals to us in a broad minded spectrum without being criticised? I suppose not! Agh well! That's life eh?
Best wishes, Mike.