Now who was it said that there's nothing really new under the sun... just old things done a different way?

I like hearing old music and songs for the first time. Whether I like hearing (or performing) them again, and again, and again, and again, depends on what I thought about them the first time around. And I like hearing new music, songs and singers that I think are are good enough to become old some day, and not disappear into the dross. Mind, you, I don't go looking for them!

I like certain kinds of fiction by some authors, and I have some favourite books by those authors which I read and re-read because they're just too good not to. When I discover what I think is a good book by an author I haven't read before, that author goes on the list... if I enjoy the book enough. In non-fiction, the author has to make the subject catch the interest. If he does, then I'll look for other material by the same author, even if it's not on my particular subject.

Oh yes, and I consider myself a "folkie"... whatever that is.