I've always loved folk music too...from the time I was 12 or 13.And I guess for a while I believed its messages too.But later I realized that most folk singers were/are phony limousine leftists.But in spite of that I still love the music itself.
A Little further to the left than phony. My Grand Dad said he Volunteered to be on Joe Hills Firing Squad, in Utah, in those days, you could do those things, but I have no secondary verification.