Genuinely like the show but some guests just don't work. Mary Chapin Carpenter (whose early stuff I liked on record) doesn't really interract in the "session". She just sings her usual material like she's in a studio somewhere - complete with in-ear monitors. Kind of pointless. It even looks like she's miming for part of some tracks, but I guess that could just be the video editing being slightly adrift. The same goes for Cara Dillon (not that I've ever been a fan of the girly-tweeness of her delivery; it seems even worse in a grown woman). Bland product promotion.

The best parts are the interraction between the musicians. Michael McGoldrick and John McCusker, etc., are worth their weight in gold. What's required from the singers is that they use the occasion to do something different; to bring something to the party that helps create something new, rather than treating the assembled luminaries as a pick up band to promote the latest record.