Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear...

OK. sigh...

Why is it that I have so tenuous a grasp on what is folk that I cannot tell when it is country? I kind of figure that country has repeated choruses and more simplistic form but I don't know that to be true.

So Folk is a ballad that tells a story and is passed down from generation to generation with undetermined origin or author? When do contemporary ballads become Folk? What are those songs called in the meantime?

Country started out as 'hillbilly' music then was called 'Western' music, still later called 'Country and Western' and is currently misnamed 'Country' when it would be more accurately named 'Country Pop' or 'Country Rock'.

Forget I said anything, Big Mick.