That wasn't my point Ron,

It was about suiting music to the likes of the audience, and being accused therefor of selling out.

And also, those trad songs were not remembered or collected because they were, or were not, Popular (i.e. with the mass audience), but because they were damn good songs. They must have been popular (small p) with those who passed them down the years, for that very reason.

I suspect the same will be true of the best of the current output of today's musicians.

Don T.