The electric technology was "essential" in a Scottish tradition session….

Words to live by!!

How about electric bagpipes?

And playing an acoustic guitar—OR an electric guitar—and doing something complicated to the point of incomprehensibility is not the guitar's fault, whether electric or acoustic.

Don Firth

P. S. It just occurred to me that those real cowboys out on the cattle trail that the Lomaxes collect real cowboy songs from back in the early 1900s must have had some really long extension cords....