Always regarded as country, and sold himself as country, but I rate him as one of the greatest Australian folk singers. Don't know how he would rate as a folk song writer, because the issue is confused by the number of songs he sang that were written by other people.

What I always liked and admired about him was that, in a genre infested with more or less fake American accents, he retained his Australian-ness.

As far as I know he never attended a folk festival, National or other.