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I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.

I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I grew up listening to those because my parents were kind of into folk music.

I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.

I came late to the genre of folk music.

I was reared on folk music.

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.