I wonder whether I think that American music is all so "pernicious". After all, I do sing a few American songs (including those already mentioned, and Tom Dooley, and Fall River Hoedown). For the avoidance of doubt, Al, the few bits of your stuff I have heard are excellently done, but to me sound very American, even "new-country". I think it's maybe a good job that our attempt to meet up near Nottingham failed, since I don't think I'd have wanted to put myself in a position where my performance could be measured against yours.

But I do try to do as much traditional English as possible - because I am English. I would not like to see the English culture die out, and I would not like to see a homogenised style of acoustic music across the world (presumably influenced largely by American styles, a fair dollop of of African thythms, a nod at the minor sounding scales of the Oud, maybe a hint of Celtic, some central European - good heavens, apart from the fact that they amplify it to a high degree, and it's not so American, I think I've just described Whapweasel)

LH, if your music is not folk (which I think it isn't, from your description) then I'd probably call it "contemporary acoustic", since my suggestions for a label of "neofolk" or "nu-folk" seem to have fallen on deaf ears.