What a load of crap. It is so easy to stereotype something you obviously know very little about.

Introspective? You are saying that folk music isn't? Take a closer look at "Barbara Allen". Ever listen to the blues, or perhaps you do not consider that a form of folk music? It is easy to be selective.

Once again you are being selective in your opinions and views and not using sound reasoning or realistic criteria. You feel that "Hee Haw" was folk music and you ignore the same qualities and persective that exist in contemporary singer-songwriters. It all boils down to your own perspective, and anything that you do not like becomes exempt from folk music, regardless of any historic precedence. '

Folk music DOES have a life of it's own - that is one of the attributes of folk music. The sky is not falling, folk music is alive and well - and thriving.