The man is from a folk music-playing family,writes in a modern folk music style, on acoustic instruments, about the area where he is from-why on Earth isn't it folk music? What the hell else is it?

Pop music.


Honestly, why and how do you think to define him out of "your" chosen arena simply because you don't like what he does?

I use 2 measures. One for "folk song" and these days, for that term I'm somewhere near the 1954 outlook.

The other is whether I hear anything about a piece of music that I might recognise having a connection to what I think of as being folk. I could for example have played a Pogues album and without knowing anything, have detected some folk influence. I simply can not do that with much of what I've heard of SL.

0I went to see John Tams and Barry Coope at Glastonbury this year, and they played a set of what I would consider to be soft acoustic pop on synthesiser and guitar. [snip] like wise people like Show of Hands, who again, I would say are pop or soft rock singers.

Interesting...