Every Time I'm In The Woods, I

The Danger With The Internet Is That You Don't Need To Think About Music, You Just Search For It And You Find The Answer. Singing Used To Be Part Of Everyday Life. Women Sang While Pounding Corn. Men Sang While Paddling Canoes.

In The United States, Many People Said You Can't Have Folk Music In The United States Because You Don't Have Any Peasant Class. But The Funny Thing Was, There Were Literally Thousands, Tens Of Thousands, Hundreds Of Thousands Of People Who Loved Old Time Fiddling, Ballads, Banjo Tunes, Blues Played On The Guitar, Spirituals And Gospel Hymns. These Songs And Music Didn't Fit Into Any Neat Category Of Art Music Nor Popular Music Nor Jazz. So Gradually They Said Well Let's Call It Folk Music.

I Used To Agree With Kurt Vonnegut, Who Said That The Human Race Has A Snowball's Chance In Hell Of Being Around A Hundred Years From Now.

At The Audition, Your Assignment Is To Find Something New In The Song. Something You've Never Noticed Before. A Breath Carried Over, A Thought That Ties The Whole Thing Together. Then Take The Risk And Do It.

The American Indians Were Communists. They Were. Every Anthropologist Will Tell You They Were Communists. No Rich, No Poor. If Somebody Needed Something The Community Chipped In.