I call them, as you do here, Dick, 'new songs in a traditional idiom'; not to be confused with the welter of protest or whimsical personal experience, so often unjustifably subsumed under the 'contemporary folk' label, but which bears scant resemblance to anything which any one with any real knowledge of the genre would recognise as related to true 'folk'. YMMV - & indeed would appear to do so?

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