I've been catching up on some great things, Flattop... have ye heard Emmylou Harris doing "Hobo's Lullaby"? While not the original, I think she does a damn fine job with it. Roseanne Cash does some good material, but I'd almost say that Johnny Cash deserves sainthood too along with her. (saw him play a few years ago, and he still does a GREAT show. And this is at an amusement park gig).

That's the kind of stuff I love... it's the songs that have elements from two or three musical traditions that have been fused together into a new tradition. Maybe that's what the American folk tradition is... Hey, it worked to create Rock 'n' roll!

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