Clinton..."Folk music is whatever anyone wants it to be....".....pooh!given rules like that, I can pour Ragu sauce over sauerkraut and call it "Italian"....
you may LIKE any durn thing you please, but a word has to mean something similar to those in the discussion or it is essentially useless...and 'folk' has just about been mis-used into oblivion now..(and they are working on 'trad')