Here in North America, what is seen as being folk music is very different from all other continents,
unless we are hearing First Nations natives, what gave the heart-beat drum-beat to the blues of slavery.
If we ignore the ancient folk music heritage of our land, we have to listen to the others who landed.
Looking at North America from the east coast, where Europeans first settled,
you have to see folk music as coming from the instruments they brought over,
what could be classical music family heirlooms or military marching band left-overs.
Coming from the Ozarks, the Appalachians, from being mountain men to down deep in the holler,
"Jolene" by Dolly Parton is as folked up as you can call her.
I watched Miley Cyrus doing it as part of her "backyard series", her favorite old songs done acoustic.
But it was too modern a backyard and that's all it was, a live band performance.
I watched Dolly Parton singing it as a staged performance, even if it was a professional TV stage.
A fake barn, a fake fence, a stage floor instead of dirt, with a country gentleman playing acoustic guitar.
But that's all it was, with a lot of Dolly Parton close-ups showing her to be a little too fake herself.
This video has it all, the song, the singing, the barns, the clothes, the vehicles, the clotheslines and the great outdoors.
As far as being a new millennium update, having a man, losing your man, wanting your man as someone else is taking your man,
you might start wondering what being a man in a mans' world is, when a man wants to be a woman while still being a man amongst men.
Cross your fingers, cross your eyes, make a cross, as you watch a cross-dressing chart-crossing hit.
I know... I know... you want to cross me off too.
