I write folk songs.

PRS never had a problem with that.

Neither do I.

Some on this thread, not just Jim, would blank out the millions of contemporary folk songs out there purely on principle. If you like such songs, you go on Amazon or iTunes store and search on "contemporary folk." If you just put "folk" they assume you mean country and western and offer you a Dolly Parton album as first choice...

You see, you need to know what to call something in order to get your hands on it, and the world calls it contemporary folk.... Most British traditional folk gets called celtic by these American websites. Is Martin Simpson celtic through his Scunthorpe origins or Sheffield home??????