"no they used Pink Floyd's Brick in the Wall"
Which isn't by a million miles folk music - in Soweto or here - what's your point Al?
The Travellers used MacColl's Freeborn Man, Thirty Foot Trailer and the Moving On Song as I means of self-identification - it doesn't make them folk songs either.
The ones we interview didn't reckon the C and W songs they all sang as folk either, they folk songs 'the old songs' or my father's songs' or 'Traveller songs (all up for listening at the British Library.
It seems the only ones who can't tell their fork arse from their elobows are he folkies from Boggart Hole Clough and the rest of you.
Sorry Mike - didn't read your posting in context.
Jim Carroll