British trad music is still relatively new to me, so "SO long" isn't quite right, but here are the two things that I wish would spontaneously manifest in my little hands: + the 8 records of A.L. Lloyd and Ewan McColl singing the Child Ballads, as previously mentioned by Uncle_DaveO + Bertrand Bronson's Child Ballads songbooks, either the four volume version or even the single volume version. Like I said, I'm all new to this, so I'm really quite clueless about how much this stuff costs or how easy (or not!) it is to get. I got a little dose of reality when I spied a set of the four Bertrand Bronson volumes on abe.com for $2250!! Shriek! Still, I wish there was some way. The New York Public Library has a copy, but they frown on photocopying and I don't know how hard it would be to get them to give it up for an afternoon. I wouldn't be surprised if it was "special collection"ed. *grump* xo, E. Bess
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