Back at ya there 5:54. I never cease to be amazed at the stinginess in the folk music community about this subject, and the tendency so many have to demonize the musicians who are making their music pay well enough to comfortably support a family well, as if they had signed on for back up to Britney Spears or something.

I want the world to love and respect the music AND the musicians. Not paying the musicians shit just marginalizes them and the music.

Why shouldn't folk and traditional musicians be earning on a par with other professionals like teachers or hairdressers or nurses and doctors or attorneys and paralegals or what have you?

Why shouldn't we be trying to raise appreciation of the music in the eyes of the music consuming public, to put folk and traditional music on a par with jazz or R & B or country or classical music?