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

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

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.

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.

Everywhere, there was Ukrainian Gypsy and folk music. That's just how it is there; you cannot escape it. But I found that I liked it.