If one does not see the connection between folk/blues music, the conditions that people are living under, the politics that affect their lives, and the current events at the time they were written, probably ought to change over to pop standards or something that is non topical. Everything about our music, and especially in the last 75 years or so, has to do with making a statement, be it political, or on the conditions which people live under, etc.

I think the 'Cat is enhanced by these discussions. It makes it interesting. So if you are not interested, just don't read them.

Mick