Looking at Stringsinger's No.6 and SOPs footnote comment I must admit to having gone down a route of enjoying their apparent authority then gradually despising them. If there are to be footnotes they might be done with context, wit and one eye on the cliche they have become. Perhaps hoping to discover something new, even when it's old, in a voice or a song is inhibited by written exposition, rather like those people who wander round the National Gallery in headphones because they're not sure whether to like something or not.

The question has to be, would an album be any less appealing a listen without the attributions or have more mileage, as one finds what the folk route if any, is.