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To answer your question directly - all the collections I listed did fit in with the established definition of folk, even collections like 'Greig' which were gathered in the 1920s, thirty years before the definition was agreed on
The term folk has been clear and specific since the 1830s
All folk sons don't sound like anything Al they as varied as any other form of music - even more
The style you are describing bears no relation to any traditional sty
You have the Song Carriers - go listen to Sheila McGregor (Stewart) singing Tifty's Annie (prog 2 I think) and tell me that is "turgid"
Listen to the mouth music from the Hebrides
Or Charlie Wills
or Sam Larner
or Maggie McDonagh
Turgid my arse
Jim Carroll