Just realized something re: US vs UK folk. The US has the blues tradition behind it, which, as far as I know, UK folk does not. This might be the crucial difference?
And yeah, to my ears, country/folk/blues/hillbilly(apalachian) are in the same family. Once I figured out that they're all using the same three chords and singing about the same things, the differences between the genres became harder for me to discern.
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