I'd like to point out that although I am a firm believer in the meaning of the word "folk", and that folk music and song is an important part of our cultural heritage - a part of what we are and why we are that - I also do (as well as modifying and arranging traditional songs - for example TFFOSM as Mad Lizzie linked to) sing and play in acoustic song sessions quite a range of contemporary originally electric songs, for example: -
Play with Fire (Stones)
Substitute (Who)
Shooting Star (Bad Company - or is it Free?)
the Folk Singer (Tommy Roe)
Come Away Melinda (mostly from the Uriah Heep version)
Walk me out in the Morning Dew (mostly from the Nazareth version)
You Can't always get what you want (Stones)
You Better Move on (Stones)
Signed DC (Love)
Who am I (Country Joe and the Fish)
I washed my hands in Muddy Water


and a number of contemporary acoustic things for example
Ride On
Love has no pride
Fall River Hoedown
Step it out Mary (under pressure)
A couple of Richard Matthewman songs
The Importunate Child
Watercress-O
With God on our side
I shall be released
There but for Fortune
What have they done to the Rain?
The Cat came Back
A living wage
Hilda's Cabinet Band

And have originated a couple too
The Common Road
The Mulberry Bush
and some political parodies.



Sometimes this makes me wonder why I am so firmly and universally termed a traddie.