'contemporary folk song'
I can see nthing wrong with this in the club context as long as it is applied to songs which have been made using folk form, thus achieving homogeneity and giving the audience what it came to listen to
It is when it is used to cram in anything that takes any fancy - the 'singing horse' school of non-thought
"digs pass,"
I don't do 'nasty digs' - I leave that to those who describe the pioneers as romantics and who suggest that Child couldn't tell the difference between his formal poetry and his folk ballads   
Roud shiftedf from just including folk songs to anything the source singers sand, not to make sure he missed nothing but - well- god knows why - it just didn't make sense, especially as he didn't include everything the source singers sang - how could he
THere is no justification whatever for giving a Roud number to an easily traceable composition of the early twentieth century by an American boxing promoter who had never set foot in England -especially as our last big souce singer has dismissed all such songs as 'not folk songs'
Jim Carroll