No Jim.

It is a VERY accurate assessment of your view of folk music.

The vast majority of here recognise that folk is alive, well, flourishing even, in the UK.

Today there have been two post detailing the number of clubs in Sussex and West/ parts of North Yorkshire.

In the latter the number alone exceeds those listed on Wikipedia.

But of course YOU know better. You who hasn't set foot in a folk club for years let alone set foot in one in the UK.

You decide, in your own mind, what is and what isn't folk music.

Many, many scores if not hundreds of singer/songwriters do not pass YOUR litmus test.

However to the rest of us they are wonderful, creative and talented people striving to keep folk music alive.

It is YOU who do not recognise this, and worse castigate these very people.

You say you love the genre but seek to destroy it with your every post.