I wouldn't call the SME folk, but they were certainly part of the Free Jazz Tradition and Community - and played well within that Tradition - speaking as one who was once scathed as the worst percussionist in the world by the late great John Stevens! Honour indeed.

But alongside John Stevens we had (and still have) the equally great KEN HYDER and his band Talisker who approached scottish folk material in a similarly free-form way - their version of Ca' The Yowes is legendary, Whistle o'er the Lave o 't likewise.