For some reason only half of my last post actually got posted, and therefore I fear it appeared more facetious than I intended.......I won't re-type everything, but I wanted to bring to you attention I quote I remember reading somewhere. The story goes that Bob Dylan met Thelonious Monk and introduced himself as someon who "played folk music", to which Monk replied "Man, we ALL play folk music!"

To a very large extent, the practice of differentiating music by genre was invented to make records easier to sell. I don't necessarily discourage this, but I always remember that I don't live in a record shop.

You play music. I play music. Long may it continu. Surely whether or not we decide to call it "folk" or not is not the most important thing here?