Hi WLD! Some good stuff here. A suggestion about 'connectedness'; I was blown away recently by a brilliant example of a modern man in middle age, singing passionately about the ordinary things of our time, not some idealised byegone age. I refer, of course to Mudcat's own George Papavgeris. There are others like him, but he comes closest to my idea of a 'folksinger' who is rooted in the real, the here and now.
Hope this good discussion keeps going.
Tim