Just one more post from this little white WASP (actually, I'm Jewish, and never liked Frankie Avalon!)

Someone in the music business was telling me today of how Prestige Records would cater to purists in the era we're talking about. When Ramblin' Jack or Van Ronk would record a country song, he said, the liner notes would always call it, "a hillbilly number in the folk tradition." And the beat goes on.

(Thanks, Jerry -- liked your posts, too).