It took you an awful lot of words to say it, Karen.

Bill, I actually think that the difficulty in finding the right pigeonhole is a very healthy thing. Whilst words can never hurt me (at least on this subject), I find all sorts of folkie terms awkward. "Folk music," "traditional music" (or even worse, "trad"), "revival," "folk scene" and now "source singers"...Come to think of of it, "folkie..." we have to say SOMETHING just for convenience, admittedly. What's healthy is that the squabbles over terminology betray the fact that the music that brought us all to this website simply can't help evolving.