My credentials for listening and playing it are that I like it, not because I may or may not own a flat cap and take a whippet for a walk.
But I *do* own a flat cap, and I'm just back from taking our lurcher for a run and she is 1/4 whippet ... so I'm terribly sorry, Ian, but if we're playing 'Authenticity Police Top Trumps', I'll see your folkist credentials and raise you :)

Apart from that, what Spleen and Anahata said.