"I am of the opinion that his affected finger-in-the-ear bullshit was just that."
I suppose you would say the same about broadside sellers muezin callers, Eastern European, Indian, Tibetan........singers - it's a technique that has been used worldwide for millenia (not to mention Lloyd, The Watersons (both hands over ears in their case) and numerous pop-singers?
"Folkier than thou" ones and ones who think what they like is the only thing the rest of us should listen to"
Once is a mistake - more than once is a deliberate lie - who and where has anybody told you or anybody else what to listen to?
"I got a ban for using the Words of the People"
More specifically, you got a ban for calling folkies a shower of c****s - acceptible to you maybe
Jim Carroll