Okay Kerrville Folk Festival, I'll give you one more chance to prove your progressive bona fides.
I teach these country kids that punk rock is both a sound and an attitude. Folk music once was both too. Acoustic strings singing diatonic harmonies and coded political messages. Twangy morals for a society's conscience. How's her health today? Mumford & Sons' songs take the folk in' folk out of the folk. But at least they substitute pop for populism.
4 years ago I thought folk music looked a little rundown so I decided to take her temperature. It didn't look pretty; because it sounded extra pink pretty. I teach these rural kids that country music came from folk music. 8 semesters ago it sounded like she slid back under comtp. count.'s sentimental pop side. Songs lacking the gravitational pull of humanity and justice. Just pocket mirror mundanity. Peter Yarrow of the Peter Paul and Marys sang "Puff the Magic Dragon" to me. hopefully that regression was the one step backward before the next 2 steps forward. But 4 years ago the only liberal messages to be found were on Subaru bumpers.
