well it could. Folk Punk is really about rugged DIY

Not really, it's about folk and punk blending together.

there is definitely a subculture dude.

My problem with most folk-punk is that it's far more folk than it is punk. For the longest time I've been looking for some actual punk, and by that I mean fast, simple, rebellious tunes, but with acoustic instruments. Most of this just sounds like really political folk played by a full band.

Sure, but subculture=/=genre.

subculture is part of what genre a band is placed under imo. especially a punk band.

of course it's part of it, Minutemen are called Post-Punk all the time when they aren't really imo but that doesn't change what the genre entails......it's a punk and folk hybrid and that's what Billy Bragg is imo.

Yeah, I kind of feel that way at times, too. Hmm.. One band I like is Evil Robot Us'. You might like their song "The Forest as a Medium for Change". Other than that, you might like This Bike is a Pipe Bomb. Kind of the opposite of what you're looking for, because they're electric, but who knows. I like 'em, anyways.

That's a bit more like it. I'll give the album this is from a listen.

Seriously? I'd say the opposite; Folk Punk to me is nothing more than priveleged kids pretending their fighting for the oppressed because they're bored and overly sheltered. Really, to me, folk has a definite economic and cultural dimension; and priveleged kids from the suburbs playing music and using subcultural symbolism most relevant to other priveleged kids thats about making-pretend Wobbly politics are still relevant... that **** doesn't apply. At all.

There is, after all, a definite reason truckers and farmers listen to Merle Haggard and not The Bike is a Pipe Bomb.