WAV - the experts in the field are here (although I do not claim to be one of them), people who have devoted a huge proportion of their lives to the study of folk music. Some have many music related qualifications, some are professional performers of traditional music. Who can be more qualified than that?

Whilst you have led a fairly unusual lifestyle, this, along your extremely brief involvement with the folk world does not qualify you to dictate to those who are far more educated in this field than you.