Good luck, John:   :-)

How many threads have there been on Mudcat with endlessly raging arguments/discussions about what is or isn't "Traditional?" Can a traditional musician (are there any still alive, unpolluted by radio or recorded music) play something in an untraditional style? Can a primarily untraditional musician play a song in a traditional style? I suppose so. Is If I Were a Carpenter a pop song done in a quasi-tradional style written by someone who had some knowledge of the tradition but wasn't making a serious attemp at sounding tradional? The mind boggles.

I wish you well, John P. Your quest is a valid one. For me there are three types of songs, Ones I wrote, Ones I didn't write, but I know who did, and ones nobody knows who wrote them. I don't mean to demean efforts to define types of music. It does seem to be a Quixotian quest, though.