Hmm.. I can't remember not listening to folk.. My Dad got turned on to Steeleye Span before I was born, and I just grew up with everything from Steeleye to the Irish Rovers.. unlike most kids I thought my dad's music was really quite cool... From Steeleye and the Rovers Dad and I (between the two of us) discovered Planxty, Anuna, the Wolfe Tones, and Fairport and Pentangle and and and.. You get the idea.. :) Then I made the mistake of meeting Greg end of my freshman year in college (okay, so that was only last year..), who was from Maine and had all the sea shanties and the like.. So i guess life got me started.. there wasn't really a time that I didn't have a love of Irish/folk/etc. music.. :) Pei