This matter has pretty well been argued since Sunday breakfast, but it remains that the idea that traditional and / or folk songs were never sung by traditional and / or folk singers with harmony or instrumental accompaniment is patently absurd.   Making a blanket statement like that is a bit like Wile E. Coyote walking off the edge of the cliff and confidently hanging there in mid-air. Until he looks down, realizes his situation, and plummets to the canyon floor. WAV, you just haven't looked down yet.

You're making an awful lot of unfounded pronouncements about the way things are and are not.

Don Firth