Quite the opposite, really. But finding “traditional” songs on YouTube that don’t actually, you know, suck isn’t that easy…
Mingulay Boat Song: the best traditional, age-old, timeless, authentic folk song written within living memory by somebody not even from the area.
The first recording of this song I ever heard is — not surprisingly — my favorite. Take a listen:
http://giddysinger.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d09e68b891be2b011015e697db860b.html
I have this album, actually. Also actually, the Revels need to put a couple of these on YouTube – because I’m discovering that the level of decent folk music on that format is bloody awful.