(Windows seized up just as I was going to post. Didn't know Bill Gates was a traddie!)

Let it be, let it be... They wrote good songs, and a lot of those songs are just out of my capability. Unfortunately.
I can't see any difference between their songs and those of Jim Croce, James Taylor, and other writers of songs about the human condition. But then, I like folk songs, you know, the songs that folks know and like. I just don't believe that you have to go to a folk club/festival to be folks.
Like Lanfranc, I've been there when someone performed L&McC songs to a 'Folk' audience. We all knew the chorus' AND the words.