"Mary Delany, but point taken."
Another pop at another source singer then
Wonder what it is you respect about folk song if you disregard the people who gave them to us the way you appear to
Travellers, Irish and Scots in particular, were responsible for passing on some of our best and rarest ballads.
Perhaps it's just the "diddys" you don't like - whoops, forgot, you've no time for any of them, have you?
If I based by definitions on who or what people listened to I wouldn't have one - just like you
Jim Carroll