It's A Very Important Thing To Learn

My Dad, The Old Professor, Used To Say, 'never Get Into An Argument About What's Folk Music And What Isn't.'

Again, I Say I Will Be Glad To Tell What Songs I Have Ever Sung, Because Singing Is My Business.

Every Time I Read The Paper Those Old Feelings Come On.we Are Waist Deep In The Big Muddy And The Big Fool Says To Push On.

I Was 16 When I Came To New York. I Had Graduated To A Tenor Banjo In The School Jazz Band, And It Was Kind Of Boring - Just Chords, Chords, Chords. Then My Father Took Me To A Mountain Music And Dance Festival In Asheville, North Carolina, And There I Saw Relatively Uneducated People Playing Great Music By Ear.

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."