Declan: you and some others always seem to confuse clasification with adverse criticism.Personally, I am not that familiar with Ani DiFranco,'s work so I haven't anything much specific to say on that; but surely you can recognise that saying you think someone is or is not a folk performer is not denigrating or praising their performance? If we see a black and white striped anuimal, we might disagree if you called it a zebra and I called it a giraffe, but neither of us would be saying it is a Bad Animal. We would just be attempting to classify it.