SS, nit-pick alert. If you're saying what I think you're saying, first, I know Brel is Belgian. The atrocious French accent I spoke of is not Brel's, it belongs to the guy who insists on singing Brel's songs to folk-oriented groups.

If I abandon the word "folk," it's because the way it has been used within recent years, it's come to mean anything that anyone wants it to mean. And as to "traditional," there are those who are trying to misappropriate that word also and apply it to things written recently by singer-songwriters, e. g., "Writing folk songs is 'traditional,'" obviously trying to turn that word flabby also.

As to occasionally using the tactics which I deplore, I must plead guilty. My apologies for that. But I find that it's a bit contagious and I will try to inoculate myself against it. I wish others would also.

But I still question you use of the word "corporeal."

By the way, I do like your stuff on YouTube, whether it is ultimately judged "folk music" or not. A lot of it most definitely is.

Don Firth