"therefore an answer to the argument that playing traditional songs (or even "folk songs") leads to stultification."

I thought that was the aim ........stultification.

I often see you traddy people on mudcat, saying I'm more stultifying than he is, and that guy's sold out....he's hardly stultifying at all. And others say, I thought I was stultifying, then I heard the original version - those source singers, by gum they were really stultifying. In fact Walter Pardon was so stultified, people used to say - hey up Walter, tha's not half stultified tonight!