Joely, we have this argument every once in a while, but most of us agree (most of us living in my house, anyway) that there are people writing music in one of the many folk idioms, expressing the concerns of "the folk," and this music is distinctive from classical and jazz and pop and country/western, but has great areas of overlap (with the other idioms perhaps more likely to "borrow" from folk than the other way around, and these musicians are folk musicians thus what they write is folk music. Whether it will live long enough to become "traditional music" or not, that is the question.

I'd love to hear your songs. My eMail is BSEEDKRATZ@aol.com. --seed