Judaism has nothing to do with it!! It is a matter of simple economics and market perception. These guys all created identities which resonated with the heroes of folk music in the English language, which is predominantly a legacy of Anglo Saxon types -- including those who wrote most of the Childes' ballads, the cowboy songs, the chanties, plough-songs, pioneer songs, Appalachian tunes, moonshining music, railroading songs, drunk brawl ballads and chanties and love songs and rebel tunes which make up the mass of that legacy. If you're going to sell records in Rome, sing as the Romans sing. You'll sell more records that way then sweating in a niche category trying to have a global impact.

This is a statistical observation, not a political or sociological issue.

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