Jerry:

Well, it's like some kinds of food -- you can get so obsessed with purity that you forget the delights of eating!! I am all for stirring up a love of folk music. Even if it means starting with "Oh Brother" because that's the right step for the listeners.

What I do is once a month or so I rare back and sing out loud in Balboa Park with Banjoest and a few others. And it always gets 'em -- I think, looking back at the various expressions of delight I have seen, especially from kids, that the tragedy of mass media is that they forget that ordinary people make music! They see it so rarely it seems like something rare. Ain't that a poke in the eye with a sharp stick?

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