Well, Ron...you sort of made my point. "Linguini with clam sauce" IS fairly standard: some cook it better than others, but you would NOT find Japalenõs in it. "Folk" and "Traditional" ...or some term...should, make it clear what to expect at a concert or on a CD. If your tastes are very eclectic, you may enjoy a very wide range of stuff that even vaguely resembles Linguini with...um...."folk", but some of us don't like the chef being too surprising in the 'regular' recipes.....as I say, The Tannahil Weavers were some sort of loud pop/folk/rock/celtic mix that was only VERY loosely 'trad'...I paid for a concert that I only liked 10% of. I didn't repeat the error, but that is only one example. Years ago, I bought a "Red, White & Bluegrass" album because of the performers, and found it was widely divergent from what I expected.
   I have to be VERY careful....and I will ALWAYS wish that there was some attempt to clarify, in a standard way, what I'm likely to get.

I realize (I really do) that asking and repeating these pleas is like shouting down a well...but I'm just putting one viewpoint out and hoping......