Hey, Tim: Very few people on here grew up listening to a lot of traditional music. I certainly didn't. My well is a real Mulligan's stew, and it's not just the music. Music is an expression of our lives and who we are as much as it is our influences. That's part of the reason why twenty people can do twenty different interpretations of a song, The tradition has never been static and never will be, no matter how much some people insist it should be.