"It is fresh, original, and true."
Reminds me of the time back in the 70s when a feller stood up at a London club and complained about all the violent songs, especially the anti war, Viet Nam protest ones, and pleaded that we all should be singing of the good old days when everybody sat around drinking ale and eating roast beef..... a lovely anodyne picture of life as it never was.
I remember thinking, when we finished cleaning up folk songs we could then make a start on Shakespeare and Dickens and all the other sadists, and maybe burn a few history books while we were at it!
Mind you - in those days we were singing songs that had come down to us through the centuries - we didn't know what real folk song was back then!!!
Jim Carroll