I like old music, old tradtionals, all that stuff, and, as we all do, I take from where I like, what I like--I am always curious as to where something has come from and how it got to be the way it is, and am always very interested in the characteristic elements of the musical genre--

However, I am sick to death of the "Traditional Music Police" mentality that seeks to include or exclude based on how closely someone corresponds to a label--and I am sick to death of people who try to pass themselves off as "Folkier than thou art", and I believe that they do nothing but harm to everybody who plays and listens to the music--

Case in point are the people who are critical of the "Oh, Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack because the contemporary recordings by commercial artists are not "authentic"-- rather than appreciating, and trying to build, on what it has done to promote this kind of music, the every dwindling numbers of "traditional music" people are complaining about it--

Kids are hearing this music in unbelievable numbers--and when the listen to music, they want to play it, listen to more, learn more, write their own, and I am very excited about that prospect--What I am afraid of is that when these kids play"Man of Constant Sorrow" on their electric guitars, down at the Mall, one of the "Traditional Music Police" is going to collar them afterwards and give them Hell--