I like your post, Stringsinger. The encouraging news is that there is an enormous amount of music still being created in this country that you'll probably never hear unless you go looking for it. It's the non-corporate music of America that is still singing. I've become more aware of it because I have some young friends in the alternate country and alternate folk and rock circles. I don't like all of it, obviously, but there is still fresh, exciting music be created in garages and on front porches. Most of it owes something to folk, but it is not limited to folk.