Thanks, Gene, for introducing me to Harlan Howard and Cindy
Walker.

On the American audiences thread there's been some talk about how "folkies" are divided up into different communities,
based on genre, Like trad, Irish, singer-songwriter, blues,
bluegrass, contra dancers, etc. One such community that isn't
known terribly deeply by most "folkies" is the social change
music community. Of course, a fair number of the songwriters
mentioned are in that community, but others not mentioned are Charlie King and Fred Small, as well as Joe Hill and John
McCutcheon, who has one foot there and one foot all over the
map!

Other great songwriters that I don't THINK were mentioned
(please forgive me if I'm wrong) include: Willie Nelson,
Fats Domino, Bruce Cockburn, Bill Staines, Elizabeth Cotten,
Tom Lewis, Fats Waller, Steve Goodman, and Lyle Lovett. If
you want more info on any of these, please drop a line in the
thread.

All the best,

Marymac