It was said that nylon string guitars are not good for folk. Peter, Paul & Mary did pretty well using them for folk (even if it was pop folk it sounded pretty good).
During my college years back in the mid/late 60's I played with another guy and a girl singer doing folk music. Both of us played nylon string guitars and it sounded great. We referred to ourselves as the poor man's P, P and Mary. Played a lot of sorority and fraternity parties and concerts on campus and had a lot of fun doing it. On many songs we finger picked and on some one or both of us strummed and it worked out well.
Willie Nelson seems to do well playing a variety of music types playing with nylon strings. I think they can be more versatile that some think. Back when I gigged solo doing mostly originals I used a nylon string guitar for quite a few songs (mostly finger picked).
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