I don't think so, Les: I think that farming has changed at a much greater rate in the past 50 years, certainly in the past 150, than at any other comparable time in the past. One point I take from the IV CD is that the nation's music has changed as well, and that folk music can adapt to these changes. That it can take from these newer styles and give to these newer styles.

Not that it is only the IV that demonstrates this, of course. But in the end John Barleycorn is still John Barleycorn whether unaccompanied traditional, folk rock or raga.