I'm not saying you're wrong, Ray. Nevertheless, as someone who experienced the Post-war Revival this (if 'this' even exists outside my local singaround, of course!) feels a bit new and a bit different.

It seems to me that the P-w R came to be dominated by a few professional 'stars' - and far too many 'lesser' singers came to sound like them. At some stage, in some circles, 'Folk' became a sort of sub-set of 'Pop' dominated by 'stars' and personalities. I think that's why people start threads on here with titles like "Fred Blogg's Lord Bateman" - as though they think that 'Fred Blogg's' actually wrote Lord Bateman and that it did not exist until 'Fred Bloggs' recorded it.

What happens now in my local singaround just feels fresher and more 'homemade' than that - and less influenced by the 'stars' of the P-w R. I wonder if someone else, somewhere else, is experiencing something similar? Could the art of singing traditional songs be entering a new phase - or am I just imagining it?