"There are scores of great writers,"
"great" "great" is a subjective term - do they sound like folk si what I thought we were talking about
Some on your list have been writing for decades - I was asked about new songwriters
Are there really only scores - something else that has bombed then
Peggy Seeger published an occasional song book, New City Songster, that ran to twenty volumes and include several hundred new writers - I dare say some are still around
Frankie Armstrong, Phil Colclough Jack Warshaw Sandra Kerr, Brian Pearson, Dick Snell, Doniell Kennedy and Denis Turner were songwriters in The Critics Group - and Ewan and Peggy of course - some of those were among the greatest in Britain, Jack Warshaw in particular
John Pole was associated with the group and earlier on so wer Enoch Kent, Gordon McCulloch Tom Paley and Bobby Campbell
The Critics had regular songwriting evenings and produced some stunning stuff
The Grey Cock in Birmingham was producing its own school of songmakers
Writers like Graem Miles, Eric Bogle, Ed Pickford, Pete Smith and a load from Australia the US, Ireland and America all ..... and many more contributed to   
One of my own personal favourites up to the present is Glaswegian Adam McNoughton

The Critics took songwriting a stage further when they produced half a dozen annual 'Living Newspaper' theatrical events at the end of the year which were made up of newly written songs and sketches
They also wrote and performed a Radio Ballads for Schools based on Romeo and Juliet and set in London's East End
The criteria for all these songs as far as I was concerned was that they didn't stick out like a dose of clap in a seminary during an evening of folk songs

Only scores, you say..... hm
Bit of a come down and I'll bet at least half of them have sfa todo with folk song
Things are looking bad, aren't they !!
Jim