Here's post number 21 and if saying that there is a folk music industry is unpleasant, then I've started it...

You have the recordings, you have the punters purchasing the recordings, you have the DJs pushing the recordings, you also have the publicists for the record labels and the artists themselves, and, of course, last but not least, you have the money that funds most of the above. Folk music does not have its own set of rules when it comes to all this, some folk (pun intended) need to remember that.