"Why do so many people want to call their favorite music "folk music""
Me too?
"I repeat doesn't get it -never will."
Get what Al - you have responded to nothing I've said so I presume you haven't read or understood it - that is the real key to "not getting anything".
"MacColl and Lloyd" both sang the songs the heard the older people from the same rat-infested sites, the same pit villages, the same fishing communities I got my songs from.
MacColl spent a great deal of time recording the people that sang them and what they had say about them so we could check he wasn't making it all up - as you appear to be with the songs you call "folk"
How about substantiating your claim - we've registered ours for public access
Jim Carroll