"Mine was hearing a few things I liked and working my way back up the conduit to work out what it was."

Not stuff from the Sixties revival - my impression was you are of that generation? Billy Bragg was about as much folk as I heard back in the early Nineties and it certainly didn't lead me to seek out Trad Song.

I agree that lot's of people are now picking up on the err current revival and a good thing too for sure. Though my feeling is that Traditional Song and Music shouldn't really be dependent on the variable fortunes of the contemporary folk scene or indeed how tasty the performers are (Jim Moray isn't my cuppa btw., though Benji Kirkpatrick's alright.) Any more than any err old art form aught - be it Drama, Poetry or Classical Music, or whatever.