I wish I'd said all that

Can't imagine why, it's bollocks. FB was supposed to be some sort of chronology of the folk revival in Britain. This had its roots in various traditions, all of which are components of what is generically termed 'rock' (or certainly 'popular') music now. Schubert (Austrian) and Gershwin (Murkan) wrote music which in some cases was based on indigenous traditions. Some of their work is occasionally performed by 'folk' as well as classical and jazz musicans. ALL music was originally composed, not plucked from trees by yokels. Increasingly, the name of the author of a piece survives, though not always, especially when it is passed from hand to hand, voice to voice and instrument to instrument, thus becoming truly the music of the people. This process begins the moment you play or sing your new piece out, it stops being just yours and starts to be 'ours'. Just look at how many tunes of known (to some) authorship are listed on 'thesession' as Irish trad. And how many writers have been told that their own composition has been 'in the performer's family for generations'. Is it getting just a bit hard to draw your lines now? And Punk Morris? Yes, there is some (can't for the moment remember their name but someone else will be along in a minute who does).