the bassist from one of my favorite modern roots-rock bands (Boiled in Lead) actually started a label (he was running a few for a while there) devoted to nothing but Scandinavian folk music (Vasen, Garmarna) and roots rock (Hedningarna, Hoven Droven), and there were high profile releases on other labels from Mari Boine, JPP, and others.

So it's weird that if they could issue compilations of contemporary hardanger fiddle tunes, they wouldn't dig up/push something with more of a history...

I dunno though.