Bruce, just to throw a slight curve here. Both MacColl & Lloyd wrote songs that have been collected as traditional songs from traditional singers, MacColl collected one of his own, much to his amazement. Conolly, wrote "Fiddlers Green", which is fast entering into the tradition, along with many others. I'm pretty stubbon myself on what I consider to be folk & traditional, but it's my own, & I'd certainally say that it's these songwriters that keep the tradition alive. But then it's a matter of taste & that's again personnal, no? E Bogel, C Twaney, S Rogers, A Fisher, T Lewis, J Payne, K Wolfe, E Pickford, S Kahn, J Richie, S Gunning, B Wheeler, all of these people & more have written (folk?) songs, that I'd say will be around for some time to come, maybe even becoming traditional some day soon. Barry