C'apn I agree with you. But song moves on. If you're happy to believe that the evolution of song stopped with recording and notation, then fine. Enjoy the past. But once, the past was the present, and people wrote songs to express themselves and their times.Most of the people in Britain don't know what you define as folk songs, my urban parents certainly didn't, but they sang a lot, and some of those songs are still sung today, many of them over 100 years old. So when do the songs of the past qualify as the folk songs of the present, or is the museum closed so that no new artifacts can be added for the appreciation of the folks?