..........and since I've been gone for the past several days..............

Let me take a moment to wwelcome any newcomers who are reading this thread to our Mudcat Quarterly Pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Sacred Folk. Every few months a thread pops up with an unlikely title (in this case we're running two threads) that is dedicated to the search for an agreeable definition of folk music. You'll find all opinions generally covered from traditionalists to songwriters. Feel free to add your own opinions and but be assured you will not get 100% support for whatever it is. As Art said, we are simply editorializing to each other and the ever elusive answer will wait for another day. Personally, I have two very busy weeks coming up and I'm going to try to limit my 'Cattin, although I'll probably wind up wasting huge blocks of time in front of this screen. Everything I have to say on this subject I've already said and any effort to reconstruct it in a different form is wasted 'Cat time---like now. SO...............

Let me say for the record that everything stated on the two current threads is brilliant, erudite, total nonsense, written by congenital idiots without a clue......... and that I agree with all of it, except those things said by all of you and myself on this thread and others past.

Good Christ, we must be the nuttiest bunch of bananas on the net.

Spaw