"I must have missed Woody Guthrie when he showed up at a UK Folk Club. "
I was referring to singer/songwriters who used the tradition to inform their work
I say Ramblin' Jack Elliot at The Bluecoat Chambers in Liverpool on a tour to raise funds for Woodie's medical costs, but that's beside the point
"what people here sing seems to have no distinct identity" "
Yes I have Dave (still answering without being reciprocated
The attitude here is really 'anything goes at a folk club" - Music Hall, Victorian tear jerkers early 20th century pop songs masturbating-into-your-guitar, singer/songwriter stuff, The Cricits, your Galway Girl and others from the same source - The Kinks.... and more
How can anything as divers and unrelated to folk song as thatclaim to have an identity of its own, let alone a cover-all definition ?
And above all, how can that possibly fall under the same heading as folk song proper
Your turn now
Jim