In another thread (about Oancho and Lefty) Big Mick commented on the song I agree that it is more of a "folk" song than it is a "country". And it set me wondering what the difference is.

Maybe there've been threads about it in the past, but I've missed them. It strikes me that there's so much overlap that a lot of the time there's no musical way of saying whther something belongs in one category or another - and that the distinction is likely to be more about the politics involved than anything. If singera are Rightish, they tend to count as Country, if they're Leftish (in American terms) they tends to count as Folk. But then you have someone like Steve Earle.

But then you get tunes. And you get people playing together...