Sorry if I don't make sense. I thought I was being direct.

I think commercial folk music has lost its way and most of its fans. the remaining ones insist that folk music is some great esoteric thing, which ordinary folks are too dim to grasp.

I don't remember what Orwell said in 1984, (what did he call the lower orders)but Winston Smith wrote - if there is any hope, it is with the clods(or whatever he calls them.)

And thats how I feel about folk music - more comfortable with the clods.

Okay...?