Not to be deliberately disrespectful of another's opinions but, Toto? I'll go have another listen. My recollection is that the songs sounded like they were composed by committee and recorded with a lack of balls not commonly found in people of that age. I'll go have another listen.

Someone said something about "going public", and I wholeheartedly agree that folk needs to be more public. Funny, isn't it, that the words "folk" and "public" aren't too closely alligned for folk music to have lost its common appreciation. Oh well, maybe in the big picture, after some history has passed, folk music will remain and other forms more a footnote.

I like Mbo's way of passing songs along in the folk tradition, even if most of us, including me, wouldn't define them as folk songs. However, just because it's delivered like folk music doesn't mean it is folk music. The definition for me is much more complex. Oh, oh, getting close to "what is folk?" thread again.

I'm doing my best to expose my kids to folk music, with some success, and with all the competition, any success is good. Exposure of music and children to each other would create a greater concentration of folkies given a generation or two. Not much of it in the schools that I can see, but I do what I can at home.

Peace, Mooh.