Today my favorite musical genres are jazz, classical, folk, in that order. The only time I listened to pop was as a teenager, loving doowop. But in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, my favorite music was folk. I performed folk music myself and always had my guitar at hand. At parties, at dinners, I arrived with guitar and sang for my supper. I first heard Elliott in the Army. I subscribed to the folk magazine Sing Out and responded to an ad for his first American album, Elliott sings Woody Guthrie. Playing the album, I became an immediate fan, an increasingly obsessive one. Elliott was ahead of the curve, peaking before folk music became popular in America. He went to England and made a reputation there. With the sixties new interest in folk, he returned to America. By the time I got out of the Army, Elliott was making regular appearances at the Ash Grove, a So Cal folk club. I was always in the audience. Why do I like Elliott so much? His performances blow me away. Here he covers a ...