Re: What is a folk song?

[David Baron <d_baron...>]

Woody Guthrie once some it up: "I never heard a horse sing it"

Of course, it is kind of far-fetched to call all this modern singer-songwriter 
stuff (of which I am a proud practitioner) "folk music". "Country" might be a 
more accurate lable. Woody's songs, usually very contemporary-topical, were 
usually song to melodies that his audience already knew (hymn tunes and 
traditional folk songs).

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