made my point perfectly.

But what exactly is your point, Jim? Other than to establish there is such a thing as Folk Correctness, something so febrile that it no longer exists except in the haunted wet cheese delirious dreams (and nightmares) of the 1954 faithful because they can't bear the thoughts that they might have been wrong all this time, for you were sold a whole raft of specious shit in the first place which had more to do with the collectors than it ever did with the singers.

In this sense the Folk Revival is akin to Walt Disney driving lemmings over a cliff if only to prove that they did this by instinct. It is a gross falsification of the evidence by those whose main cause was to prove a theoretical agenda which had little or no basis in reality.