I'm willing to bite here, and ask for examples of omphaloskeptic songs Mudcatters loathe. When you get right down to it, "I'm So Lonesome I could Cry" and "Lovesick Blues" are pretty introspective and angst ridden, but also pretty good songs (though not "Folk" yet they could well be considered "folkish" since an awful lot of "folk" have sung them). "The condition of my heart & soul" are, after all, one of the two or three main topics of all songs, isn't it? Isn't singing, as an art, intended to communicate one's perception of the human condition, and to evoke in a listener some understanding of and identity with, the singer and/or songwriter?