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Thread #20467   Message #213281
Posted By: Rick Fielding
17-Apr-00 - 04:52 PM
Thread Name: How would 'YOU' define 'conservative'?
Subject: RE: How would 'YOU' define 'conservative'?
Hi Wesley. Actually I can't see why even an arch-conservative would have any trouble with folk music. You're quoting from Woody's "This Land..." which is hardly a folk song. I can see why they'd be pretty pissed at some of the modern composed songs of the sixties, but the vast majority of folk music is hardly political...lotsa murders, sinking ships, deer shooting, bad man ballads, river and lake songs etc.

Hi Doug. I don't! I don't! Kat's politics and mine are probably fairly far apart, although we agree on some issues. I said she had a "valid point" but I certainly don't think it's true in all cases. Seriously, I try to make up my mind on a "case by case" basis.

Rick