Yeah, some folks find these reality sandwiches kind of bitter-tasting

With respect, Don, we don't all share your particular reality, which, judging from your rant, and the above statement, is a very different reality to my own. Your sandwiches are only bitter tasting in respect of the narrow-minded absolutism they embody; hard won no doubt, but I've always found that folk music is best served by non-musicians, certainly non-musos, for whom professionalism is a complete anathema.