I know two Welsh guys ( one an ex-steel worker, the other ex-miner ) whenever I mention traditional song ,they love (especially when they're half pissed ) love to tell me what a load of bollocks it all is.
Apparently they were mentally scarred into ever wanting hear anything to do with the phrase or word "Traditional music" after having to sit through someone singing Watercress-o. They have great glee in telling me they retired to the bar of the working mans club from the room where this folk club was being held, and had a proper sing-song,-Delilah et al.
I hope now that WLD can now retract his statement "I can never get anybody to empathise......" and that I empathise entirely - so - you HAVE found somebody.
Also all these songs will be sang today by thousands and tens of thousands , Waltzing Matilda ( Ozzies ) Flower of Scotland ( obvious ) Wild Rover [parody](every football ground throughout Britain) Fields of Athenry (Liverpool supporters) not mention Sweet chariot, Bread of Heaven , shows that people DO love a sing-song.
The label is irrelevant - is the singer going to bore the tits of us is the question .