Breezy, I hope you're not saying that people shouldn't make money—or at least try to make money—out of singing folk songs.

To some, singing folk songs is not just a "hobby" or a "pastime," it is a profession. There are a lot of people in this catagory. Need I list them? Without these folks, there would be far fewer people who become interested in folk music in the first place. Were people such as Jeb not paid for what they do, many of them would not be able to afford to do it.

By the way, members of the "folk scene" are not the only audiences out there. In fact, if one sang only for died-in-the-polyester folk music fans, it would be slim pickin's indeed for those who do sing professionally.

But as you say, this is another subject. And quite probably worthy of a thread of its own.

Don Firth