Andrew Tolkmith is the assistant literary editor at Word on Fire and author of "We Are What We Sing" in the Winter 2025 issue of New Polity. Today, he joins Jason Craig to make the case that folk music is not a genre but the way a people expresses itself, and that most men have inherited nothing to sing. They trace what recorded music replaced, how a song like Tom Dooley is born and handed down, and why the Church has always been a singing people.
In This Episode, We Cover:
Why recorded music turned listening into private consumption—and what it replaced
The difference between music you choose and music a people hands down
How a real folk song gets made, using Tom Dooley as the example
Why every priest vows to pray the psalms daily but is not bound to say Mass daily
Three songs Andrew says every father should have in his home
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