Mocking Tudors, Not Turtles

"...Around twenty or so years ago, I had a habit of spending part of my summer checking out England's various folk festivals. On one of these sojourns a member of my cohort sagely opined that to be successful in this area of music you either had to be a startlingly expressive musician or a brilliantly imaginative songwriter: without either of these, folk sounded unremarkable and ordinary. I felt this was a sound judgement, which is probably why I still remember it today.