I agree with Goatfell's definition, about songs "feeling" like folk songs. For me personally, that "feeling" comes from lyrics that tell stories, and (generally simple) music which could have been played on instruments available in a pre-electric age. SoL meets those criteria, imho.

I always associate SoL with the similar (tune) My Samuel How You've Changed (or, Jenny Won't You Please Take Me Home) by Al Stewart. Never quite fathomed the meaning of the proper title or lyrics, but love it anyway- a bit like Bo Rap.

Re GUEST,mgarvey's comment, old threads are new to us newbies, who might even be able to add to old threads, and not just regurgitate what was said before. It would take hours to read through every msg, to see if we were covering old ground, before we posted msgs of our own.