Dear Guest

"Don't let the bastards grind you down!"

You are interested in what this site has to offer i.e. access to thousands of songs, and people who share your interest. Thats why you spend your money on it.

Folk music is about history. More specifically, it is about the history of common people and their struggle to bear up to the harsh realities of life. It exists in loads of different forms in loads of different countries, from Nicaragua (Nicaragua Nicaraguita) to Ireland (home fire), from Vietnam (The ballad of Ho Chih Minh) to The USA (Let my people go), from England (ordinary man), to South Africa. (Whats the name of the new national anthem?... something sikelele Africa)

Anyway, the point is, that even though Folk may have become the plaything of dreamy woodstock nostalgics, that doesn't mean that they have any superior claim to it. In fact, quite the opposite is true. As long as there are cultural and social divides, folk music will continue to flourish. It could be argued that artists like "Gil Scott Heron" and the "Last Poets" were protagonists of a new kind of urban folk when they spawned Hip-Hop back in the 70's.

You've answered the original question yourself anyway: not all mudcatters own computers.