Not damning at all - I think it's glorious & I recognise and celebrate such tendencies in myself, but I refuse to kow-tow to the sort of noxious absolutism we've seen in other threads - such as Does Folk Exist?. The problem I have is reconciling pedantry with pragmatism especially with respect of a music that only exists by dint of its having been defined as such by outsiders and removed entirely from its natural habitat and reinvented by way of a revival elsewhere. I am one such outsider with a life-long love of such material and I have a similar philatelic approach to (say) The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra, The Recorded Legacy of Joy Division, the Soft Machine and the Third Ear Band - likewise the films of The Marx Brothers, although here my appreciation is somewhat different in that I don't then go out and perform such material however inspirational I might find it!