My apologies if this is off topic, but it is pertinent to Jim's remarks. I may be wrong, but I suspect that Jim would have little time for Lankum's renditions of traditional song. However, he may find common ground with this quote in relation to Radie Peat, the female musician in the group. It is from Myles O'Reilly who has a website music program titled 'This Ain't No Disco':

Older than her years would indicate is true. Not ranting now but taking the time to ponder in text about Radie and other great folk musicians like her.. In Irish folk and traditional music, as a necessary method of teaching and preserving culture, young musicians grow up joining their elders at music sessions from a very young age. In the songs of their parents and grandparents, aunts, uncles and their friends, deeply shared emotions mostly particular to one's own community are conveyed that can never be recorded in writing. Held within these emotions are important lessons. Human lessons pertinent to their sociological conditions. The older and more experienced generation of players and singers with whom young musicians then identify with the most, naturally become mentors. Radie is once such musician who has grown up around local music sessions, listening deeply, and so making meaningful connections with the stories and the lessons locked within them. What you're hearing as "older with more heart than [her] years would indicate", is the collective feelings and emotions of all the generations that have lived, loved, laughed and cried before her, successfully having been passed down to her. She is able to communicate that history and wealth of emotion to all of us and more importantly the next generation of musicians that identify with her, so on and so forth. That's how Irish culture has survived many hundreds of years of foreign colonization, and will continue to be how Irish tradition will survive the current global commercialization of music and culture. Every country has their own ethnic traditional folk music, which every country needs to nurture and protect... ...I could go on and on about it but words fail where the experience of being present won't. Myles.

The source of the quote is comments re clip on YT of Radie Peat singing 'My Bonny Boy'.

My Bonny Boy

Here in Oz, every week I listen to Mike Norris' 'Classic Folk' radio program on the efdss website. I also read the reviews and listen the radio programs on the Folk Radio UK website. Judging from the volume and variety of music presented, folk music in the UK, however defined, appears to be healthy indeed.

--Stewie.