George, I agree with much of your post of 0847 (eastern Standard time, I assume) yesterday - except to say that you have always entertained well when I have seen you, but I think your primary purpose is social commentary.

There have been others (Dylan may be the best example) who have attracted and sometimes held attention, but were never entertaining and whose primary purpose was propangandising. Billy Bragg may be another of those: his "Sexuality" is embarassingly unlistenable but states much of truth.

To be an "entertainer" however is to seek merely to occupy the mass mind: a mind by definition usually vapid. A folk singer by defintion has roots in history. To the folk singer or folksong singer, being entertaining is an objective only insofar as it serves the song. To an "entertainer" being entertaining is either an objective in its own right or a means to a different end: aggrandisement, enrichment, or the service of his/her nether end.