Don't you think you could take traditional folk or any other folk and market it as such. Buy time on big market radio stations, with professional highly paid jocks (nothing against our own Rick) playing really fine music with salesmen out selling time, promoting jingles in folk, highly advertized concerts, etc. You get my drift. Why can't you do this with our beautiful music without changing the music. It's all in the hype. My first husband was a well paid disc jockey in San Fransisco and he chose which music was played according to the format layed down by the managers. Now if I bought a station in Chicago, lets say, and I created an exciting format for folk with top grade jocks, don't you think it might work. The jocks wouldn't have to be aggressive or crass, just dynamic.

I think it would do a lot for our music if it were presented to the public like this. Kids would be out buying albums of Rick Fielding, etc. I don't know..if I were rich, I might give it a try.

I wouldn't expect the music to change, just present it better.

Love, annap