Yeah but those are all important parts of history (except the Michael Jordan thing....who cares?). What I am talking about, Meebo, are the obscure bits...the things Uncle Sam and various other governments want forgotten, things like the USS Indianapolis, the genocide in Rwanda, the fact that when hundreds of gay men started dying in the early eighties no one cared, the stolen generation in Australia, the sterilisation of retarded Americans....

There are other things that should not be forgotten and not all of them tragic like the beauty of one's homeland, the heroic efforts of men (and women) helping others to survive or to improve their country.

To me that is what folk music is all about. Keeping the past alive so that we may learn from the mistakes and successes of our ancestors.

We as writers, musicians, and artists are part of a great collective of spirits....the conscience of the world.

Amergin