Someone said back there that Folk went back to Anglo-Saxon texts - whereas it's an invention of 19th Century antiquarianism; hell, even Child didn't use the word Folk. So, invented in the 19th century, predicated on grounds of class condescension by the early 20th century revival, reinvented as left-wing come-all-ye by the mid-20th century revival, and a free-for-all ever since basically. Folk can (& does) mean anything to anyone - the word is there for anyone who wants to use it, and those who do (Moulettes being a case in point) do so with respect & reference to a very particular aesthetic entirely consistent with previous usage.

Everywhere I look, Folk is evolving - everywhere other than Mudcat that is, where the toothless orthodoxy are gurning with cantankerous displeasure than anyone younger than 60 should dare intrude upon their precious (though entirely imaginary) domain. I have to say this has been the most dispiriting thread I've read in a long while.

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Hardly youthful myself (though I often feel it in the old-folk world) I've just blogged my first release from 30 years ago; I called it folk then & I call it folk now. Check it out HERE.