" The very first time I saw your face ". It was written by a Folk singer highly cherished in this thread - but not a song I would expect to hear in a Folk club.
If I did, and it was performed well, it would give me pleasure.
Folk music is in your own head.

Actually Dave Burland does a terrific version of this song - and makes it sound like one of MacColl's - on the Burland/Capstick/Gaughan album of MacColl songs. Betsy, PM me if you haven't got a copy.

The reason I'm banging the drum for trad isn't that I don't like contemporary music, or even that I don't like singer-songwriters. It's just that - if my local FC is anything to go by - this kind of unstated definition of 'folk' can't be relied on any more. People don't give you half a set of traditional songs, a couple of MacColls, a Leadbelly and a few originals; you get an entire set of original material with perhaps the odd Dylan or Hank Williams number thrown in. It's not the same - and, nine times out of ten, it's not as good. My interest in traditional songs ignited when John Kelly did a guest slot & did an entire set of traditional songs - I had no idea there was so much stuff out there, or that it could sound so good. And this was after being a regular FC attender for around five years.