Susan, SRS, and Bobad: Thank you for the help and support. The first installment went up this AM and over 150 people have read it so far. Many of whom had never heard of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs, and the other youtube vids I put up. I have them asking questions about the musicians and singers I included and asking for more. This was what I'd hoped to achieve.

As for the rest of you, I'm sorry I bothered asking for your help in getting younger people interested in folk music; it's kind of obvious to me that a lot of you just don't care if the music dies with you. You ask where the young folkies are, but I don't think you really care. I pointed a very talented young singer (16 years old) who loves old ballads to this site, and she told me later that she tried getting involved in a couple of threads, but didn't appreciate the condescension and general snarkiness that she encountered. You might want to think about that for a few minutes - what happens to the music when you're gone if you've driven the young ones away?