My wife loves folk music both old and new. Every year I get dragged along to some weekend festival that I absolutely can't stand. I do it to be a good husband. But act after act, song after song is either depressing, melancholy, downright maudlin or angry about something. Even the faster tempo songs are not entirely uplifting in their lyrical content. Dar Williams epitomizes this music for me. For goodness sake, every song is some sort of tear-jerker reminiscence about her childhood or a lost love or someone who didn't understand her or something I don't understand that seemed to upset her as well. She's not the only one. I have no idea who 90% of these artists are but one after another they come up there and depress me. I just don't get the appeal.
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