I said I would talk about Hank Williams some more in future posts but it turns out that this particular song won't give me any rest at the moment and that's fine by me. This is one of those songs that puts me in a really good mood although I am not somebody who requires "feel good" music in order to feel good (actually quite the contrary; I derive a lot of joy and inner peace and calm from music that others tend to describe as meloncholy). Sometimes all the labels are in the right place and I guess this is one of them. When listening to Hank Williams (Senior by the way), I can't help but think about Woody Guthrie and this makes me wonder again about that link between folk and country and if anyone has a satisfactory defintion of the differences between the two. Usually I would say that folk takes more melodic and structural risks and is, lyrically, less afraid to venture into unexplored territory, and country has a certain rhythm, structure and instrumentation that it adheres to rather more strictly in order that it can still be labelled country. Of course, I am assuming that I can say with any certainty what folk music is and that is also open to debate and is a term which is often very lazily interpreted. An interesting experiment would be to give the same song to two different musicians but have them play it and sing it in exactly the same way except one with a southern state or mid-western American drawl, the other with a regional British accent. Very likely the former would be labelled by the lay-person country and the latter folk although, stylistically, nothing sets the two apart. Those with a passion for either genre, on the other hand, may be able to instinctively group both into the same genre but not really be able to explain why it is either folk or country. I fear the incoherent ,rambling beast of inarticulation rearing it's ugly head in my blog post now so I'll just leave you with a great song to enjoy and not care about how it's labelled 
