On the topic of the awards, I don't think that Smooth Ops. should necessarily be bound to a strictly legal definition of the term tradtional, but (with hindsight) it would have been a good idea for them to define the term traditional as they meant it within the context of the award, and they should now do so for future years.

It is not just Smooth Ops who failed to see this as a self-penned song but the 150 other people who comprise the panel, experts on folk music every man and woman of them.

I have never come across any definition of "traditional" that covers a song written in the last year or so.