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The Importance of Folk Music
I was called a folk singer because that's what they were trying to sell. I came to Greenwich Village straight from college, but here I was in New York City for the first time and I was a songwriter. But you weren't supposed to be one yet and the folk police could get after you. Now I was lucky enough to be around real folk singers like Pete Seager, new and McCall, Joan Baez,. who sang songs that were four or 500 years old. You felt it in your heart. It didn't have to make sense to everyone else.