Mmm. Yeah. I come from a slightly different direction, but end up at a similar perspective. Personally, I think people are not only concerned with pedigree, but aesthetics. Me? I worry more about the philosophy and the drive to play. I'd readily argue that a bunch of kids playing a barn show doing Stooges and Ramones covers for free because they like the music and they like to party or a bunch of kids experimenting with Hip-Hop and mixing equipment on their downtime and those afore mentioned kids and their YouTube covers, have more right to the "folk" title than commercial country music.The argument "what is folk" permanently poisoned me to all things folk-related forever because it's so hypocritical. It's so disingenuous. It's an attempt to argue that one form of music is objectively better than another because of some trumped-up pedigree.