If I had been able to sing and play, and be there at one of Andy's traditional rooms, I would've sung (possibly) the American lumber camp ballad "The Pinery Boy" -- a distinct traditional variation of the British "Sailor Boy" and also the FURTHER WEST traditional 1849 song from the California goldfields called "The California Boy." Maybe I'd do all three of these, as Sam Hinton might've, to illustrate how the mechanism we call the 'folk process' works it's morphing machinations.

"The Shanty Boy On The Big Eau Claire River" or "The Pokegama Bear"-- or the cowboy songs "Billy Vanero" or Del Bray's "The Cowboy's Barbara Allen" would've been good to do there, too, as being illustrative of traditional American ballad forms. ------- It does drive me nuts that I can't do it now.

Where are Paul Clayton and Peter Bellamy when we really need them?
Both are dead by their own hands from depression, yes, and also arguably from a rightly or wrongly self-perceived lack of appreciation.

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