Townes is the kind of singer I like, not skilled or polished, but he sings from his soul.

Not skilled??? Well I only saw him the one time at Cambridge Folk Festival (I mean I only saw him there - I made sure to see him every time he appeared, once I'd seen him the first time) - and I'd never heard of the man before. He was skilled all right.

This song, I can't see it being Pancho Villa - this Pancho is not a general, he's a loner, and it's a pretty common name. Great song.

Any song is capable of going down well with an Irish crowd, if it's a good song. What generally happens then is that people think it's an Irish song all along. (eg Wild Rover, I live not where I love, Fiddlers Green...). This'll probably end up being called the Ballad of Frank O'Phelan.)

But where Mick said "I agree that it is more of a "folk" song than it is a "country". it got me thinking, what does that mean when you get down to it. So I'm just popped out to start up a thread called What is Country? as a change from What is Folk. Seriously, I'd like to untangle it.