Every Time I'm In The Woods, I

Alan Lomax Is The Person Who I Think Should Be Given Major Credit For What Has Been Called The "folk Song Revival." My Father Participated With Him Because My Father Was A Musicologist And Urged Trained Musicians To Learn About "the Vernacular."

One Of The Things I'm Most Proud Of About My Country Is The Fact That We Did Lick Mccarthyism Back In The Fifties.

Some Folklorists Just Collected Dead Bones From One Graveyard, Only To Bury Them In Another, Their Library.

I’ve Never Sung Anywhere Without Giving The People Listening To Me A Chance To Join In - As A Kid, As A Lefty, As A Man Touring The U.s.a. And The World, As An Oldster. I Guess It’s Kind Of A Religion With Me. Participation. That’s What’s Going To Save The Human Race.

Now Any Person Who Plays An Acoustic Guitar Standing Up On Stage With A Microphone Is A Folk Singer. Some Grandmother With A Baby In Her Arms Singing A 500-year-old Song, Well, She's Not A Folk Singer, She's Not On Stage With A Guitar And A Microphone. No, She's Just An Old Grandmother Singing An Old Song. The Term "folk Singer" Has Gotten Warped.