Little Hawk, you are on my wavelength.

Country and Western, or as billboard called it "folk and hillbilly" I believe, were and are completely intertwined. Only the brayers with their lutes do not get this.

As I mentioned earlier, there was not much of a folk music identity before the Kingston Trio's first album. The Grammy awards had no folk music catagory and Tom Dooley won best country and western song in 1958, launching the folk genre from there on out.