I've always tiptoed very gingerly around the edge of the folk music community, although I like the music, and I like a lot of the people in it, because it's always struck me that there's an impenetrable snobbishness to it.

Here's a guy who says, gosh, I'd love to be your friend and hear about what you're doing...I'd love to be a little part of your world, and the answer he gets is No chance, fella. You can't be. You are too uncool.

Real friends don't tell each other what they're doing, or if anything good is happening to them? It's not that way in the rest of the world, even in the non-folk sections of New England.