Not to me re SOH. I go a step worse as not only do I not particularly enjoy what I've heard of their theirs, I have found this material to be outside what I would personally think of as folk. But that leads to other suggestions, eg. You don't like listening to it because you don't think it's folk...

What I've heard of RUATW is actually well within what I would normally consider to be folk and I don't think they are that bad. I don't dispute the backgrounds of the sisters either.

Whether marketing can elevate a group I find "competent but average" and whether things may be explained simply by matters of tastes matching (or otherwise) are things I do ponder. And I believe I tried to express earlier in this thread.

Diane's comments in reply to me were of most interest to me in this thread. She indicated she finds them better live than on CD. Perhaps I'd find the same. Who knows?