This what I had hoped the other thread was about.

I rue that fact that so much of modern trad - if such a thing can be said to exist without eating itself - is becoming so bland and one-dimensional and formulaic. Great musicianship and quality singing, without a doubt, but everything lost in a miasma of Smoothops-friendly Radio Two-ness.

Dolly, on the other hand, brought something unique and otherworldly and downright strange to folk music: and in doing so perfectly complemented those same qualities in her sister's singing. For that we should be truly thankful.

Who, though, are her musical descendants?

I'm hoping for an alt. trad (for want of a better expression) strand to the music to re-emerge - not folk metal or punk folk any such bollocks, but contemporary singers and players who can capture what people like Shirley and Dolly, Ray Fisher (particularly on The Bonny Birdy) Mr Fox and Peter Bellamy had in spades.

Who can name them? No disrespect intended to the more orthodox traddies out there (some of who are very good at what they do), but I'd start my list with Jim Eldon, Venerium Arvum and Alasdair Roberts...