I know it seems futile, but I really enjoy the discussions about what is folk music. I confess to enjoying the fact that there is little agreement on this. It seems that we are all blind people feeling the elephant. But if enough of us grope the pachyderm maybe we can begin to understand it.

Maybe what I'm feeling is just the ear or the trunk but I like to think that there is a social implication to the music. It's an interaction of people that's positive. Or as a fellow I talked with said one night, "When there's a roomful of people singing, it's hard to find anger."

Frank