I too have a beard, the purpose of which is to enhance my distinctive profile by concealing a bitterly disappointing chin - check this out (though actual folkies might wish to mute the sound); I have not cut my hair since my mother's stroke four years ago (prior to which I seldom exceeded a Grade 1); I habitually wear sandals - with socks in the winter; Jesus is the loving light of humanity in my heart where he's resided since childhood yet I remain an atheist; I have a deep love of Pharaoh Sanders whom I've always as being folk music anyway, though not in the Orthodox 1954 sense, which is a complete myth anyway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfqCyfCOaa4

I love Don Cherry who always spoke of his music as being folk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWhsC8kq-2M

Johnny Mbizo Dyani likewise:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpVd8MUX1Kg

This week I've been mostly listening to NEU! and Joy Division.

Even to the source-singers Folk was only a part of the picture. I wonder, is anyone here 100% folkie?