LOL! I have seen that reaction.

Here in The States Dolly Parton has released an album of what they are calling "roots" music. Dolly is a Country/Western artist and the idea of her doing folk music is anathema. But that is what it is. And she admits it. This is the music she grew up with back in the hills of Tennessee or wherever she grew up.

But you will never hear the DJ's or the record companies calling it "FOLK" music. They see that label as a death sentence.

Occasionally a TV show or movie will portray a group of people singing folk music. Inevitably it is sevral people sitting in a circle, only one with a guitar and they'll be singing either Kumbaya or Michael Row the Boat.