"It is a VERY accurate assessment of your view of folk music."
No it isn't - please identify my "rule book" as distinnts from an identification of folk song taht has xisted for over a century
You imply I have made something up when , in fact' it is you who has arbitarlily decided that the current definition is no longer relevant because it i inconvenient and hve abandoned any form of definition
You know you have no argument, which is why you resort to sneakily whispering behind your hands
Dave put up the number of clubs as proof that the scene was thriving (186) not me - it transpires tat this has dropped to 136 since he first put this up

" singer/songwriters do not pass YOUR litmus test."
And very many do -
The ones tat do bear no resemblance to those that don't so where is the criterion that makes them the same ?
Mine is that they need to be related to what is agreed folk somg because that's what the audiences at folk clubs are entitled to expect - common sense - not "litmus test"
The clubs survived for four decads on that policy - when it was abandoned, they bombed
Again, it is dishoneds tto describe it as "mine" - that is how it was long befre I came on the scene
You are not striving to keep folk music alive - you are incapable of defining what folk song is so how can you possibly make such a clam
Jim