"Big media" has only one driving force - making money. There are many stories about how some "media w*****" rejected some artist as being "no good" who went on to make some other "media w*****" lots of money, precisely because "the public" liked their first efforts.

ABC TV played the 1991 Billy Joel "talking concert" the other night, most of what he has produced has become "folk style music". And he only had a piano - so when he was asked to play some of his output, he would refuse because it only worked with certain other instruments or percussive additions - does this mean that some of his music is NOT "folk music"?

Robin