" It's what you perceive it to be."
Nope - it's what it is and it can be heard at it's best on 'The Song Carriers'
That id what is defined and documented and will be remembered as folk song when you've all gone to your 'Gracelands in the Sky' - unless you follow through your arguments and burn all the books.
"You really think people who see folk for what it is actually don't like the traditional section of the word folk, don't you?"
I have no idea who you are talking about, but if you are referring to yourself, your distasteful attempts to piss on it and denigrate the people who passed it on - it's doesn't rocket science to work ot what you feel or know about it.
Happty to accept Eliza, The Oyster Band and Lloyd base what they do/did on folk song, but Seth Lakeman?
Always sounded like a mediocre rock performer to me -plenty of them on the scene - not too many in the charts though.
Jim Carroll