Much to my chagrin, many people I talk with give me a bovine expression when I tell them I play folk music. They usually ask, "What is that?" They aren't engaging in Mudcat polemics here.. or Polecat polemics. They don't have a clue what I'm talking about. The 60's were a lonnnnnnnnnng time ago. I suppose that response is far preferable to scrinching up their nose and going eeeewwwwww!

Maybe we're just too obsessed with labels in this country.

If I just play the songs, they usually like them. And then they'll say... "Oh, that's what folk music is?"

Jerry