The Newport Folk Festival schedule is out earlier than usual. This will be our third year there. Thanks to Britten for putting me on to Folk Alley Radio. Also great for contemporary folk is Boston's WUMB Folk Radio. The mix that most closely parallels my tastes is Maine Public Radio's In Tune By Ten with Sara Willis where I get exposure to good new stuff. I look for her to be nationally syndicated soon. World Cafe is also good, but I hate the interviews, just want the tunes. More and more, I am buying a couple of cuts from many albums rather than buying a few albums. Guess I'm just a function of my demographic. An op-ed piece in the New York Times explains it: "The major labels wanted to kill the single. Instead they killed the album. The association wanted to kill Napster. Instead it killed the compact disc." Usually I like being a function of my demographic. I feel that I pull my demographic along with me into good directions like recycling or exploring new music.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick