Is it? If the person singing and playing has only experience the folk lifestyle from afar and out of songbooks? Singing about cotton picking, chaingangs, murdering their baby, hoboing, pawn shops, etc. Or is it just poser music?
If you haven't lived it, it shows in your music.
Cute and funny, but not the real thing.
Like Son House called it, Monkey Junk.
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