"The one thing I don't understand about all this is why everyone assumes folk music is sacred or the best music there is. Certainly it is great, but it ain't alone in greatness."

Again I'm puzzled? Who is saying this?

My own position is that it's not "sacred", or "the best" or even "great". It is what it is - and that is distinctly different from other types of music. And it happens to be the type of music that I go to folk clubs to hear.

I'm wasting my breath, though, because some people just can't seem to separate the objective from the subjective.