I love Fakesong myself. It's only heretical to a notion of 'Folk' held in a typically precious sense, which is bogus in an any actual sense, as some of the comments here make clear (i.e. Steve hastened to re-assure her that what matters is not where they started but the fact that they were subsequently sung by and collected from ordinary people.). That said, what it yields is of importance as one aspect of Popular Music / Culture both is an aesthetic & idiomatic sense, but the pure-blood implications of rabid Traditionalism is as noxious as it is just wrong. When one looks at (say) Memetic Theory the whole idea of Folk looks plain ridiculous.