Folk police are the people who have forgotten that music is about joy,...the expression of the human spirit, the expression of hope, of anger,of humour, of story. it's irrelevant if it was written five hundred years ago or yesterday. If it's on the button it will survive. If it's not it will die. Folk police want music to be a museum.
Yesterday I participated in the recording of a song with a leading singer/songwriter standing next to a leading traditional singer. Harmony prevailed in all senses of the word. If the pro's can do it, why can't everybody?