"How is Harry Cox not a traditional folk singer "
How is he not ?
Nick was ironically using Bert Lloyd's quote from 'Folk Song in England'
"'If Little Boxes' and 'The Red Flag' are folk songs then we need a new term to describe 'The Outlandish Knight', 'Searching for Lambs' and 'The Coalowner and the Pitman's' Wife, which was rhetorical anyway
The only example of a real folk singer being disqualified from being a folk singer is when Walter Pardon was thrown out on his arse because he no longer fits into today's folk scene
The treatment Walter received, largely without comment from posters her, confirms that this seems to be the consensus

Amen Peter
Jim