"Go around the country recording singer/songwriters" ??

Not my idea of folk in Britain today any more than when people like Donovan Leitch and Stevie Adams were performing in the sixties. I have always felt that singer/songwriters (the majority of them) were really just frustrated would be pop singers trying to get a foot in the door. Several of them including the two above succeeded.
The fact that many "Folk Clubs" even now allow abysmal would be "singer/songwriters" to get up for a floor spot doesn't help.

Hoot