Well, gol danged... Take shanty songs about old masted ships going down... Wonder how many Catters were onboard those ships to sing about them??? I mean, let's get real... Most people wyho do fiolk music are telling stories one way or another... What, do we now have some kinda race thing going where white people can't tell stories that were first told by predominently black folks??? That would be really wierd, IMO...

Come on, ya'll... It's folk music, ain't it???

(Well, Boberdz... White folks ain't sposed to do no black music...lol)...

Geeze, here's the funny thing... No, not funny at all... But back in the 20s and 30s when alot of the early blues was 1st recorded it is common knowledge that most black blues performers also did all the popular white music of the day... It was only when they recorded that they were asked (commanded) to just do that "race" stuff... Source: (Alija White, "Escaping the Delta")...

B~