"Not a grain of sugar anywhere.

This is butchering a tradition that has held together for centuries"

Ah - so his concept of 'folk music' only goes back to about the 1700s when slave sugar plantations were established to create cheap sugar.... Sugar prior to then was a luxury item. So Conrad, like his friend WAV, both have very limited distorted views of the world due to a profound lack of academic study of History & Culture. So much for any waffle about 'earlier times', then ....