GUEST: Since DG wrote Sail On himself and has been closely associated for many years with Song For Ireland and its writers, I consider his versions to have sufficient authority to be respected above any others I have heard.

I don't know WTF a "conventionally traditional" or "conservative" "taste in folk music" is supposed to be if if you want to argue it out, I suggest your contribution would be better placed on the BBC thread than in this one which seems to wish to confine itself to "tweeness".