You see, I think there are some excellent traditional songs, some dreadful ones, some quite good ones, some mediocre ones and so on. I just can't get excited about genres as a whole. When I say I like traditional music what I mean is I like more of it than I do of most types of music. And, with respect, there's far far more to music than trad vs singer songwriter and most of my tastes lie outside either camp. Whilst most nights when I listen to traditional music I find plenty to love, I don't find it difficult to imagine a night of turgid songs sung badly. There's plenty of them out there.

On some levels, I do care about definitions but find the realisation that I do strangely depressing.

Never cared too much for Wizard, by the way. More of a Sparks man, meself.

Traditional music, well performed, blows me away

Well, me too. As does Indian classical music, prog rock, post bop, psych rock and lots of other things. Even the odd singer songwriter... (preferably very odd - the sainted Michael Hurley springs to mind).