From: *#1 PEASANT*: "Ron you are on record on not being worried that the folk world is small and limited."

..and then there was some squabble, over that....OK..but then music, and culture's taste changes...maybe there is a 'type' of folk music out there, and because it doesn't fit into your particular definition, of traditional 'folk music', that it has altered your perception of what folk music really is, and the origins of where and why it sprang up..... Maybe it is still springing up..maybe in a form that you might readily or normally discard.

Is 'folk music' only happening with acoustic instruments, within a certain 'style'..or is it the spirit that created that music, at those particular times, with those instruments??..and limited only to that time??..and the best we can do, is maybe just re-create it??

I think not.

However, that being said, I sure LOVE a group of acoustic players just kickin' ass!...just don't be afraid of playing with power or(powerfully)!

Oh, and by the way, for all you 'politically correct' protest song 'affectationatos', of protest folk songs, and that vein, Name ONE folk/protest song, that had any impact, even on your life, THAT AT THE TIME THAT IT CAME OUT, was 'politically correct'??????

Hmmmm..interesting...and now those same 'affectationatos' have become numb, AND numb everyone around them, or, tries to numb everyone around them, into the same stupor that those same songs were protesting against!

Or did we admire works from Dylan, Cohen, Ochs, McGuire, Prine, Seeger, Guthrie, Lennon, Rose, Zappa, and others...BECAUSE they came from 'outside the box'?
....and what are you going to promote??..being more 'politically correctly' numb????..and spout the same shit that they're are already getting...that is killing their spirits???!!?...and brought us to HERE?
Maybe lifting UP the human spirit, would accomplish MORE than instructing them what to do, how to think, and what new 'policy' to embrace to their/your bosom!
You might even strike a 'resonate node' in their minds and hearts, that THEIR whole concept of the world, is what is getting obsolete, and maybe room can be made to accommodate those whose engines are run on and by love. Not as 'regulated' to do, but rather that which foments up from our beings....
...and right now, the spirit in the heart of this country, and the world, is what needs to be nurtured a little....you think???

With all this talent on this forum, and the witnessing, first hand, of what is screwing up the rest of society, you have a thread, "Why do folk music radio programs fail?"..and think there isn't a need, and a market????...or does 'Tom Dooley' not understood fully because nobody bent the string a certain way, that you just figured out???

Love to exchange positive feedback...jeez, I'm pointin' the way....also love to get a great female vocalist....

Most Sincerely,
Guest from Sanity