Hey, Art:

Yeah, yesterday's certainties are todays I dunnos. The funny thing to me is that at least in Greenwich Village in the 60's, whether something was a "folk" song or not was The Last Thing On most People's Minds. The little traditional music I heard was played in a not-particularly traditional style, and I was the oddity, mining the Anthology of American Folk Music. Yeah, Baez initially was mining the same vein, but from the start, "purity" was hard to find.

I still consider folk music to be acoustic. I guess that I am a purist singer/songwriter. Talk about an oxymoron... I started this thread only to get people thinking about traditions, not all of which are folk.

What about the tradition of bowling, wearing a satin shirt with your name embroidered on the shirt pocket?

Jerry