You should probably stick to curated and slick studio recordings if the "warts" bother you. I've thought about this for years: why is there a cut-off of x years ago? When was the "tradition" authentic, and now, it's not, because it changed? And what will the folklorists of the next century say? What is the long view here? People now learn songs from recordings or books. If there are what some deem "traditional" singers, how do they exist apart from mass media? "Tradition" has to change, no matter how much people bitch about it. (Over 600 posts, and nobody's saying anything new, but then, it's a traditional subject. [insert winky face here])
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