Singer? Guitarist? All relative.

I am told I can sing. However I could never sing opera as I freely admit that there is a difference between following a tune and leading it a la opera or baroque for instance. My voice is a wee bit flat but no matter because those who like my singing mean the tone not the pitch.

If you listen to ten different recordings of Vivaldi's Gloria, you could never tell the difference between the soloists in Et in Terra Pax but each would be wonderful and pitch perfect. Whereas some of our favourite folk singers would never get through first audition for a professional choir, yet we recognise their voice immediately.

All relative and to say folk is limiting..,. Well, you've been reading those for whom folk is a narrow traditional field.