Thanks, Spleen for posting the link to that recording of Phil Tyler singing, 'The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin'. That's exactly the sort of stuff I want to hear in a folk club (and so very rarely do). Fine singing with excellent banjo accompaniment.

It has been my experience that if you start widening the definition of folk song, to include anything that you happen to like, then this sort of stuff (the sort of stuff that I go to folk clubs for) has a tendency to be pushed out and replaced by any old 'drek'.