I will pass over the question whether it is vicious to call something vulgar. You are right to point out that I am in enemy territory here & would do well to make myself inconspicuous, especially as there is little cost in doing so. If I went on at any length about my attitude toward show business, you would skip over "vicious" & go straight to "insane".

This is probably the first thread I have contributed to in which I have made the mistake of commenting about a performance, live or recorded. Mainly I am interested in songs. When it comes to talk about people connected with the songs, I am mostly interested in the ones mentioned in the songs (individuals or types), secondarily in the writers of the songs & their intended audiences, and scarcely at all in performers & performances. I dare say that for most Mudcatters that order is precisely reversed.

I am sentimental about some performers (perhaps a dozen), mostly because they sing songs that I like, so that I have a motive to buy their recordings. If they come to town, I go & see them, partly because I am not immune to the vulgar wish to interact with people I appreciate, and partly because I take an ironic pleasure in imitating normal people from time to time. But going thru such motions is far from the center of the consolation that folk music gives me. It is less important than singing while I wash the dishes -- less important, indeed, than reading the Mudcat.

As for the Limeliters, they at any rate got my attention. If they hadn't happened to leave a bad taste in my mouth 35 years ago, I wouldn't know them from the Bee Gees or the Beatles.