The snag is Ernest, it's hard not to sound pompous when faced with something ludicrous.

The Imagined Village first album has sold over a million copies and try telling those who purchased it that they have to alter the genre of five of the tracks because they are not traditional. (I include the excellent Tam Lin revisited in that.)

Tell you what Jim, I'll take you to your word re folk process. Here in c21, the process has given us contemporary folk. Better still, I can exchange my royalties for beer. Even better, whether you publish without permission in Ireland or UK, you can find yourself with an invoice. Although in reality, I encourage my songs to be sung and the score available. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than finding them on lyrics databases from google searches. (Ok, one of my songs has been credited as traditional on one search engine which is pleasing and frustrating in turn.)

It's all folk though.