Donuel wrote:

> Future folk music will probably value and resemble how Bob Dylan was honored for his poetry first and music second.

Maybe - but for me the value is in capturing the look or sound (or preferably both) of the material in performance, by an artist or artists that I rate - because there is something in the performance that excites or connects with the human spirit in some mysterious way, that just reading a lyric, or reconstructing a melody from the written notes does not...

Line(s) from a song... "He loved to hear Paul Brady sing, and he knew all the words to 'Arthur McBride' "...