So your criterion is that if someone gets PAID for singing, they aren't folk?

I believe Jean Ritchie has been paid for singing concerts. I know that Lightnin' Hopkins, Mississippi John Hurt, and Mance Lipscomb have all been paid for doing concerts. Almeda Riddle has been paid. So was Elizabeth Cotton.

Enlighten us, oh, wise one!

Don Firth

P. S. Do you even know of the singers I mentioned?