The internet and digital technology has sure done more than its share of leveling that playing field -- making LOTS of music "folk".

Never before has the world been more capable of hearing and sharing the music of "nobodies". Nobody to screen it and tell us what we're supposed to like and not like either.

And unlike the folkscare of the '60's -- since there ain't NO way for anyone to profit largely from it, it's not likely to create the same paradox of "folk fame" that made so much of the 60s folkscare such a silly endeavor (and makes for so much sad and freakish nostalgia about that era) .