Hey paisan! Yeah, I write my own folk music. Mostly I compose music for poetry written by 17th-19th century Irish & Scottish poets, though I did do 2 Australian ones. People never seem to bother me that they're not traditional, they're pretty much ok with them. But I do cause a bit of disruption at my slightly rocked-up (though still acoustic) versions of folk and the traditional. But in my opinion, it's just a continuation of the evolution we call "the folk process". Some folks may not like it, but they should remember that the trad stuff they are singing today did not sound like that a few hundred years ago. I bet the singers in the old days took heat for adapting the traditional as well, and it's their adaptations that we sing today.

Enjoy the beach and watch out for jellyfish!

--Mbo