HK: I think Johnny B. Goode is a folk tune at this point.

SRS: Yeah, right, we buy that is a legitimate contribution to a folk music discussion. [NOT]

1954 Defifinition: The term does not cover composed popular music that has been taken over ready-made by a community and remains unchanged, for it is the re-fashioning and re-creation of the music by the community that gives it its folk character.

Blandiver Interpretation: Well, I doubt any subsequent performance of Johnny B. Goode has been entirely similar to the original. I was in a band once & we'd regularly jam on it for upwards of half an hour & it came out differently each time and yet, unmistakably, it was Johnny B. Goode. Lots of communities have similarly adopted it, re-fashioned it and re-created it thus giving it any amount of folk character in the process. I know a chap who does a blistering all-acoustic version on his dobro - that never comes out twice the same either. And don't get me started on Karaoke (note to Richard: not all Karoake's have the same backing tracks, but variations & perversions of the original). Perish the thought that anything should remain unchanged. Even the original masters have long been digitised & restored from the corrupted analogue take stock.

Conclusion: Does that make it Folk? Of course not, it's Rock 'n' Roll.