Maybe we gotta look elsewhere to hear the new folk music mate ?
Maybe our folk is now the folk of the establishment and kids wont go around singing it because it has no relevance to them?
There are rappers now and though they may outrage some peoples sense of what music is,they sing about what is impotant to there generation.
I dont mean the polished sanitised crap you see on mtv I mean the music made by the guys from the housing estates of london ,Brum,Knottingham etc.
It might be raw,sexist,violent ,or not but I think it is the current folk form for those that are living that life.
They dont plough,fish,mine,quarry,marry virgins etc.
So why should they sing about it or in any way assosciate with those "Folky" things?