1.Someone loaned me the first Joan Baez album. 2. Went to a Pete Seeger concert. 3 Went to the Newport FF in the early sixties. 4. Attended the first Fox Hollow in 1966. 5. More recently, saw a PBS special of Leonard Cohen in concert 2009. The first four gave me insight into what folk music was all about. the final" epiphany" was that I had neglected a truly greas songwriter for 40 years.