There's good singer-songwriters, indifferent singer song-writers, bad singer-songwriters. Likewise, there's good folksingers, bad folksingers, boring folksingers. But then one person's meat (veggie?) is another person's poison. There have been some "folk" singers I've seen that most of the audience have loved but I've been bored stiff. There are singer-songwriters I really like that others won't give the time of day. Then again, there are SSWs who seem to also carry the "folk" label, while others don't - Is Stan Rogers a folkie or a singer-songwriter?

The bottom line is that it all depends on ones taste.

Rana