i tend to call the style "folk and its edges"... i love the edges... and someday time will tell if songs will be called folk, or people will recall, "oh yah, remember that triple-A song...." :-)

... perhaps TIME determines folk music... people wanting to learn your songs and playing them and others playing them down then line makes them folks songs... the content and other things can make it a folk song... the association of a certain time period or history with your song makes it a folk song...

if it fades away and no one else plays it, perhaps its a folk song that never was... a folk song that never got a chance... a folk song that was so forgettable it was forgotten.... maybe if that happens its past is that it was just a song... or perhaps a song "written in the folk tradition."

... lorraine