That may be so Diane, but he was positively celebrating the alleged fact that English folk music had died out and bewailing that in Ireland and Scotland people still remembered folk music for what it was. What he presented was quite the contrary of your last paragraph, and the proof of the pudding being what it is he also mentioned that only one of the songs on his album was "traditional".


You will not be surprised that I am horrified that readily adopted the assumption that songer songwriter music was "folk".