If you didn't respond, it wouldn't be you Art. But we get into so much damn pigeonholing here that it gets bizarre. I don't disagree with your definition, or Sandy's or Frank's of countless others......But I keep wondering why this keeps coming up more and more? Is it just new folks joining in or are we somehow so locked up in this thing that we can never let it go?

Rick made an excellent point in saying the person you're talking with makes a difference. I think too that referring to "folk" to most people brings up something we'd refer to as "folk-like" and that's the point of all these pigeonholing definition threads. I know that when I say the word to Karen, or when I'm talking around here that I'M using two different definitions.

Maybe we need FLAKE music......"Folk Like And Kinda' Enjoyable".....But then would we have to describe folk-like and enjoyable?

Spaw