That's fine, Johnny J. This was the first I've heard of them, and I like them, too. I like a lot of musicians and singers, from the Baltimore Consort to the Beatles to operatic bass-baritone George London (who sometimes includes a traditional folk ballad or two in his recitals), but that does not make them folk musicians, nor of any particular interest to the core idea of this forum. That doesn't stop people from discussing music other than folk music and those who perform it.

Singers like the late Richard Dyer-Bennet was a classically trained tenor who had also studied classical guitar. The bulk of his repertoire consisted of traditional folk songs and ballads. Yet, he insisted that he was NOT a folk singer. He adhered to the time-honored European minstrel tradition and made no pretense of being a "folk singer."

True indeed, much of the music discussed on this forum IS only marginally folk.

There is a great deal of hokum spouted on this forum about what is and is not folk music or a folk singer, but let us not get embroiled in another mêlée in THAT tangle of barbed wire!

Don Firth