I don't want to rock the boat here...but I've heard some AWFUL 'folk' singers too. Where is this superior 'them' and 'us' attitude coming from?

And WHAT is the difference between a singer songwriter and a folk songwriter who sings his own songs, in the first place? I'm obviously, as always, missing the point.

Surely folk singers are either singer/songwriter themselves or they are singing the songs of er...singer/songwriters.

Oh..and...

""To me, being intellectual above anything else means having an open, cuorious mind. My Mother is an intellectual and she grew up on a dairy farm in a town of less than 1,000 population, never went to college and isn't a reader. She is an observer and a thinker."

....I have my 'I HEART Jerry' T shirt on as I write this! ;0)