not quite sure how it happened...in high school i was into the hard heavy stuff...like suicidal tendencies and dead kennedys and such...though it started mellowing out by the time I graduated...then I went to college fell in with a group of folks who liked all sorts of music...like bob dylan and the grateful dead...and reggae...but I think what happened the most was my parents love joan baez...and I heard her sing the song joe hill....well a few months later I came across a book in the college library about joe hill...i read it...and found out about the songs he wrote...and then got a copy of utah phillips "we have fed you all for a thousand years"...and loved it...also got into woody guthrie from listening to his son do alice's restaurant....found out woody did this land is your land and went looking for him...and read about him and found out about pete and cisco...and such...

also a a couple of years later i was watching the bob dylan 30 year anniversary special on pbs...and saw the clancy brothers do when the ship comes in....a few years later came across a liam clancy album called freeborn man....and got it and went downhill from there....

there is more but it confuses even me....