The late Tim Hart made the point defending critics of Steeleye a few years back, that at the time the songs were first written they would have been sung either unaccompanied or accompanied by whatever happened to be available at the time, and in using electric instruments, steeleye were merely doing the same.

It is worth remembering that when Cecil Sharp first heard morris accompanied by a concertina it was a relatively new instrument: not that very different in age from the electric guitar now.