"Folkie" seems to be more about what someone looks like than the music.

Jerry, I love jazz too. The world rises and sets with Louis and Bird for me. Tatum, Miles and Coltrane come in close. I see jazz as a part of the extension of folk music.

Then there's Bessie, Billie, Sassy and Ella.

African-American river of music has many tributaries.

Tal, Christian, Barney, Django, Pass ,Hall, all amaze me but Eddie Lang was the father of them all. Still true for Metheny, McLaughlan, Holdsworth, et. al. today.

I think of the great Johnny Dodds as an extension of a folk musician. Also George Lewis and Bunk Johnson. Then there's Jimmie Noone.

Django and his cousin Schnuckenack............jazz extensions of folk music. Gypsies.

Argentinian giant: Oscar Aleman.....................extension of "folk".
Class by himself: Freddie Greene.

The "big picture" is that all kinds of music influence all kinds of other music.

Every form of music has something unique to say and can't be completely isolated. (Even Rap and Rock n' Roll).....Even (gasp) Barry Manilow and Guy Lombardo. (I like Manilow, Louis Armstrong liked Lombardo)

Tony Bennett called what he sang "folk music" and I won't argue with him since I'm a huge fan.

Never met anyone who could play the banjo like Pete Seeger in his earlier days.

Still love Buell Kazee, Texas Gladden, Jean Ritchie, Jeannie Robertson, and the old-style
folk singers and sean-nos from across the pond.

The moral of the story is liking one kind of music doesn't mean you don't like others.
You can be folkie and un-folkie at the same time. Life's musical paradox.

Frank (the eclectic guitar player and lover of tradition(s) )