Whoa right there Art, John G's been around this neck of the woods for sometime now & if he happened to move out your way I wouldn't think once of stopping him, I'm not fond of his stuff at all (personnel taste). I don't think it's so much that some of the new stuff is or isn't folk I just think alot of it's trash & will eventually get dumped & what's good might see the light of a new day. Traditional or old/contempory folk has had the benifit of time to sift through the shit, new stuff hasn't & if a buck can be made from the good as well as the bad it's gonna be up to time & personnel choice (or the music industry's choice). I'd say that most GREAT song writers are blessed if they can get one gem out of every 20 they write so if that's even close where does that put all the wantabee's, but yet they can pump 'em out 10 at a time & a new CD every birthday as a present to themselves each & every year. Maybe we can all start a co-op that judges each new song that comes across the table at the board meeting & if a song can score over 5 votes out of 100 then it'll pass & we'll know it's an ok song, bad idea, ok I'll keep to myself about what I think's trash & only time will tell. Barry