But what sets Putumayo apart, its fans say, are its focus and its marketing, including distinctive folk art and comprehensive liner notes.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the designing and sewing of quilts became a distinctive folk art in this country, where it flourished on farms and in agricultural communities.
Distinctive folk art regions in Denmark include the Hedebo (now Hedeboryde) area, with its linen embroidery; the Fyn archipelago, with its colourful floral painting; and Jutland and Slesvig, with notable cabinetmaking.
The proud and ancient people of its remoter areas retain many distinctive folk traditions, but the lives of its inhabitants have been much influenced by accelerating modernization characterized by industrialization, the development of power resources, and the growth of the cities, in which more than half the people now live.
He went out of his way to impress Robert Shelton, then a freelancer, and Shelton's rave review in the Times ("Bob Dylan: A Distinctive Folk-Song Stylist") led to a recording contract with John Hammond, of Columbia Records, who had discovered Billie Holiday and would later discover Bruce Springsteen.
In the last half of the 19th century distinctive folk-music elements, previously totally unheeded by Europe's elitist musical cultures, found enthusiastic response in sophisticated circles, exerting an "exotic" attraction similar to that which had accounted earlier in the century for the Romantic infatuation with Eastern civilizations.
Many people tried to copy her distinctive folk-art style, but only two regularly succeeded: William Toye and his wife Beryl Ann Toye, a couple from New Orleans.
Meykhana is a kind of traditional Azeri distinctive folk unaccompanied song, usually performed by several people improvising on a particular subject.
No distinctive Polish folk rhythms but instead the "pap world of internationalised pop" (Guardian).
Her second Caldecott, in 1980, was for paintings for Donald Hall's "Ox-Cart Man" that were in a distinctive primitive folk art style.
