"You can't have your cake and eat it to. You cannot submit a list of songs that were written by singer-songwriters in the 1960's and call it "folk" music, and then declare that singer-songwriters in the 21st century are not folk."

Yes I can and I will. Because it is and I am sorry that you have to try to substantiate something that has mutated into something for convenience, or perhaps a radio format. You totally miss the point.

Personally, I believe the popular opinion is the same as what I have labeled folk music. The truth is that American (OK I said it) folk music is so diluted and so much what it wasn't that it is hardly recognizeable as such. Yes, I am talking about MY generation, which is what the topic of this thread is.

My answer is the same, Ron and I am afraid you can just deal with it, just like I said before: The folk music that was once enjoyed by a generation has for the most part lost it's way for the next. It does not "belong" to a generation today like it once did. Simply spouting that it's alive and well because there are tons more singer/songwriters than there once was sadly neglects the dynamic change in the performer/audience ratio. As in, the audience is miniscule compared to what it once was.