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Reading through the posts, I must disagree with any sentiment that appears to say a song has only one right way to be done. In folk music? In any music? Come on. YOU can't perform a folk tune like it was originally done. You ain't the person that wrote it, or the person that you learned it from. L's bells, you can't perform a song yourself the same way twice.

Music is growth. Please don't get didactic on me.

Bless any performer who stands - I give 'em a 100, and it CAN'T go down -- only up.

Faster, slower. Who cares? If you don't like what you hear, turn your ears off. Better yet, show us all the "right way to do it."

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