Oh yay, another Jd thread. :)

I don't know if he was "folk" or not, (labels can be so darned limiting much of the time) but I do know I loved his music, and also loved folk music, because of the simplicity and sparse character in both. (at least in John's early music).

My brother, six years older than me, and a teenager into heavy rock music in the mid-70s, incessantly teased me about him. He made "douche" jokes about John's birth surname (Deuschendorf sp?) and tried to get my goat by telling me about the gas tank incident. I always knew human nature was full of inconsistencies, so in the long run, it didn't bother me, although as a ten-year-old, I did get upset for a little while.

I've never heard his work with the Trios, and would love to. :)

teresa