The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113491   Message #2413948
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
14-Aug-08 - 04:11 PM
Thread Name: RE: have the American audiences gone?
Subject: RE: RE: have the AMERICAN audiences gone?
Young folks make the music happen, and generate the energy and excitement. At least chronologically, very few of us in here are young folks. I'm the kid in my gospel quartet, at 73. Most of us got in to folk music when we were young, could stay up all night and didn't have mortgage payments and kids to raise. We are the young folks of the 60's, all growed up. And out. :-)

Why can't young folks be more like us?

I wrote a song once with the lines:

"You know you're getting old when you start to say
I don't know what's the matter with the kids these days"

Jerry-atric