Good people,

If you reread the initial message in this thread, you will see that I never discussed what folk music is and isn't. That's an entirely different matter from what I wrote about.

What I did in the first message was name several characteristics of what I called a real folksinger. Taken as a whole, being a folksinger is more a question of attitude than of repertoire. That's why I continue to hold that any song can be a folksong, and that folk music isn't a genre.

--- Steve