As we see in folk music quite often, emotion transforms what might otherwise be considered 'corny' (i.e. trite, banal, sentimental) music into valid, moving art.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues

The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.