"I was asking a question in the hope that people who appear to know more about the folk process than I do would give me an answer. No hidden agenda, just interested in what people thought."

I live in hope that you haven't got a 'hidden agenda', 'theleveller' but my experience of this board is that people who ask those sorts of questions already think that they know the answers to them. They are just waiting for those of us who believe that folk is a limited and definable genre to reveal ourselves so that they can then jump up and down shouting 'folk fascist!' or whatever.