Very interesting thread.

Dark as a Dungeon and I am a Pilgrim
Crazy Man Michael
"Long Black Veil"
D'Arcy Farrow
Grandfather's Clock

               It took me years to figure out these songs were not old . The great thing about just playing with people and learning songs is that they come to you as gifts out of the air . Merle Travers must have lived the real thing to give it back the way he did. Crazy MAn Michiel is querky enough I should have guesed but the toon ,... !! The story telling in Long Black Veil is just classic as is Darcy Farrow and being a Conneticut Yannkee Grandfathers Clock has always been used at local Sqare Dances and Kitchen Parties .


             Well as my father once wrote " tradition is not a form to be imitated but the disapline that gives integrity to the new. "   All of these songs are worthy of admeration as work ... " Inspired by the tradition ".

All the best , Guy