SINS, maybe kendall would like Slade, if he likes Twisted Sister? I've got an album here.

Let's face it: folk music (unless it's pop music with banjos or whistles) is unpopular. Now it is, but I'm pretty sure Matty Groves was a huge hit when some long-ago singer/songwriter first sang the newly-written story-song for a bunch of people. Some of the stuff we do now was HUGE back when.

I like Jethro Tull, I like some Garth Brooks, I like a lot of semi-old country such as George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Charley Pride, and a bunch of folks who appeared on 'Hee-Haw'. I also have a load of Rush recordings and I was a huge Elton John fan, back before he turned into Mr Super-pop. I'm talkin' 'Skyline Pigeon', 'Madman Accross the Water' (I heard a recent folky-style recording of that!), 'Burn Down the Mission', 'Come Down in Time' - that sort of song.

And kids these days...
When I was a kid, it was top 40 or what your parents were into. I think there are so many different styles of music around now, all very accessible, that kids are a lot more diversified in taste than I was growing up. They can listen to rap with their friends, and have their iPods full of salsa and reggae and jazz and Gregorian chants and you-name-it. There are more choices, and a lot more chances to discover something they can get passionate about.