[Glenmerle]

You're right about some left-wing banjo- and fiddle-playing bands having an audience. But I think the lefty fiddle groups draw a tiny fraction of the crowds that hip hop, rap, and alternative rock groups draw (not to mention country groups), and I believe the Dixie Chicklets were going for those larger numbers.

I realize there are some Pete Seeger holdouts out there, but they are small potatoes compared to the huge audiences the Chicklets were drawing a few years ago. Despite what they're now saying, they were going for a larger audience, not a few thousand people at some left-wing bluegrass bash in upstate New York.

[Huck]

Good point. Their ticket to the mainstream was Country, and now they've blown it.