Life is as compartmentalized as record bins. Most people are multifaceted in their interests and beliefs, and yet we tend to cluster together around one commonly shared value. We come together in here with a common love of folk music. In here we are all folkies.
In another community our folkie side may be completely submersed as we enjoy sharing something not normally thought of as being part of the folk community.

So, what are you un-folkie interests and beliefs? I'll be the first one in the confessional.

1. I'm not fond of flannel.
2. I don't listen to NPR
3. Im as much Buddy Holly and Carl Perkins as I am Clarence Ashley
    and the Carter Family (although I love them all.)
4. Jazz is probably my first love, musically, followed by R@B.
5. I wear a suit and tie and stand up when I sing gospel, but sit
    down when I play folk music (but don't wear flannel shirts.)
6. I collected comic books for many years.
7. I love reggae and ska.
8. I love Jesus (and I believe that he loves me too.)
9. I like playing video games.
I'm feeling more aware of these things these days because I'm practicing for a folk concert, sitting down and playing acoustic guitar, and a gospel concert, standing up and playing electric guitar. The gospel concert is today, in a Jewish Home for the Aged, where I play once every two or three months. At the same time, I'm preparing for a book signing where I am posing more as an author than a musician.

Very few of my folkie friends like jazz. My jazz lover friends (of which there are very few) have to taste for folk music and my gospel friends have no idea what folk music is. My friends who love soul music and R & B think of me as a kindred spirit because I love the music they love, but it is only a small part of music I care about.

So' fess up. What is un-folkie about you? (Admittedly, folkies are as much a stereotype as Christian, Muslims, or Pittsburgh Pirate fans.)

Jerry