Jiggers, the word "folk", like it or not in todays world, belongs to the person using it. Your assumptions, given what we see today, as to what it should be are invalid. I believe you wrote that you assumed when you see folk used, that it would contain some traditional music. My daughter, when she hears it assumes it is acoustic. The fact is that she is more correct than you when it comes to these awards, as they are sponsored by commercial interests. It makes no sense to keep going on about that. Rather than folk, we should probably just use the term traditional.

I am with Diane as to the issue of gross profit driven motives. Certainly people enter into music because of their love of it. But they still have to eat and pay bills. We hope our music and message appeals, so that folks purchase it. When they purchase it, we pay bills, so we can continue to make music. See how nicely that works?

All the best,

Mick