I'm sure it is LesB. I dunno. In an historic sense, I saw those "folk scare" groups as boy bands of their day, and in that sense (and I don't mean this as an insult, but as a legitimate comparison) to the boy bands of today. Now don't get me wrong. The Four Tops and Little Anthony and the Imperials were boy bands too, and I loved the Motown bands. Maybe that is because I'm more partial to African American music traditions I grew up hearing (mostly gospel)than I am to Anglo American music traditions. But then again, the many traditional songs from the Anglo American ballad tradition I've learned about over the years I've grown to love, even though I had no exposure to them growing up. And don't even get me started on American Christmas carol traditions!

It is really pretty complex, once you start to look at all the different music traditions out there.