Other matters kept me from reading the book which I received several months ago, but now that I'm halfway through it I can but join in the praise above. Just my kind of book - very readable, but very informative (these two things don't go together often), and - as Bob Bolton has said - leading off in all kinds of directions besides the song histories themselves. It's a treasure trove (plus very attractively produced, despite the few glitches mentioned already), and I wish, Big Tim, you'd do the same for a handful of Scottish songs!