Last spring I was in a sing around session in Kent UK, where a very young man (early 20's at most) was extremely excited about the American folk songs in my little binder of words.

He saw Erie Canal and said Bruce Springsteen does that one. Asked me if the John Henry in my book was the same as the Bob Dylan version. Bless.. I told him it was more like the Odetta version. He knew who Odetta too.

If you search song titles on you tube, even quite rare trad songs you can sometimes find young and youngish people performing them.

I am encouraged by this.