"'folk' has acquired a broader meaning than traditional folk,"
In my opinion, this is only in a club scene that no longer seems interested in folk song - both Muskets and Al's postings display an outright dislike of them and the people who sing them - I'm really not prepared to concede the scene to attitudes like that without a fight.
By accepting a new definition that yet to be articulated and seems to be at odds with itself within the present folk scene seems to be adding to a deliberately contrived confusion.
I've said numerous times that I believe the only way folk is going to move forward is by saying what we mean as loudly and as clearly as we can
It's worked here - it might still work in Britain.
Jim Carroll