This isn't crass, Jim - personal preference is everything; it's about liberating individual musical experience from the fanciful & prescriptive generalisations of the revival and seeing things in their proper vernacular context. What is crass is not recognise how recorded Popular Music impacted on individuals as part wider growth and liberation that moved it on into the 20th Century when Tradition came simply to mean 'old fashioned'. For it is then that Folk began to flourish. I grew up in the Land of the Drone; I knew Traditional Northumbrian Pipers and Singer and Travellers and Storytellers who were digging all of other stuff as part of a much broader picture. To suggest anything else would be patronising, reactionary and absurd - three of Folk's defining features so why be surprised?