"Sounds like exclusive and elitist to me."
You tell me what your definition of 'Folk' is then Raggy and tell me how you have reached a consensus on your definition - a referendum, maybe?
I've given you a definition and can point you to a hundred books of research dating back over a century
I could also play you Tom Lenihan, Mikeen McCarthy and particularly Walter Pardon
"Ralph Mctell, Eric Bogle, Ewan MacColl" never featured in how they described their songs
One of the things I found out as a performer in the sixties is that if us and the Dylanites wished to perform our music in peace we needed to go our separate ways and agree to co-exist under separate roofs
It worked quite well for a couple of decades, until one edged out the other
Remember - we are a tiny minority anyway - the rest of the world doesn't give a tuppeny fart one way or the other
That's what we are discussing
Jim Carroll