Indubitably, Richard. ;-) Thou makest a great deal of sense, verily and forsooth! How could I disagree with any of that?

Are we actually arguing about anything here or are we not? I confess that I'm beginning to be quite unsure as to whether we really differ about any of the vital points...or we just think we do.

I explained to you already in a very lengthy post what "folk music" means to me, and how I find it different in certain respects from most other generalized categories of popular music.