Hey, Ron: That must indeed have been the strangest dream.

You made my point, Bill. People with a feel for the tradition can do popular songs and you can hear the traditional influences in there.

One of my favorites is Charlie Poole, who seemed to have no regard for whether songs were traditional or not. I can't read his mind but I can read his list of songs. He did quite a few turn of the century popular songs. Uncle Dave Macon was the same. I suspect that both of them would have thought the whole discussion of traditional or non-traditional songs was silly.