MGM·Lion.. if you'd met my mum in 1954...

any kind of 'Folk' music might have been the last thing on your mind..

she was hot..

Seriously, to the best of my recall,
all through a large part of this thread, you've been insisting on the need for classifications,
and asking for proponents of 'contemporary folk'
to furnish words that describe adequately to your standards
'folk that is not folk but might be folk even if it's not...."