As I have written on here before, the day the very first folk ballad or tune was transcribed, some could say at the time the music changed. When the very first of the same was recorded, for the very first time ever, or at best, for the very first time as means of a commercial recording, the music changed. When Sweeney's Men, and Fairport Convention, and Steeleye, and The Albion Band "plugged in" the music changed. It matters not one whit to me however, as I see that anything that keeps the music going is valid. I've heard Jools Holland do a swing version of The Maiden's Lament...it works! I've heard Pogues, and Dropkicks, and the Oysterband thrash to the music, along with their own original material. One could throw this back to say, does having a fiddle or a banjo or what have you, along with electric instruments make them a rock band? SOme I certainly like more than others, but if it had not been for Fairport, for me personally, I would not be listening to any of it, not Martin Carthy, not Walter Pardon, not Seamus Ennis, or Micho Russell-none of it, which is why the labels, is it or isn't it mean nothing to me.