It has been my experience that very few in the modern media have any idea what went down in folk over the last century. I asked an editor at the Chicago Tribune who, at the Trib, I might send a new CD of mine to in hopes of having it reviewed in that paper. He told me that there was nobody at the paper who had any background info that'd allow him to be qualified for the project. ----- So, he, being a fan of things folk, did the article himself---for which I was truly grateful.

Scott Alarik at the Boston Globe is one of the good reviewers who was there and brings their knowledge of things "then" and also "now" to his writing.

That's just my opinion. I'm out of the loop these days, and only know what I know---and not much else.

Art Thieme