I'd like to add a comment that has been hinted at, but I don't think it has really been addressed yet. I AM a singer. I have a large repertoire. I worked hard to attain that repertoire. Why would I want to waste an evening ... listening to people singing songs out of ONE book ... when they can't even sing the song from memory ... let alone tell it's background ... or sing ten varients ... and give the history of those ten varients?

To me, the varients and their history is what the search for the wiley folksong is ALL about. Just a couple of weeks ago, I was swapping songs with a small group of singers in Seattle. I was very excited to hear THREE NEW SONGS I'd NEVER heard before!

To me ... that's VERY exciting!

(what ... it's NOT IN THE BOOK ... WHO GIVES A RAT'S ASS)!

Bob