To folk infinity....and beyond!

It feels like it sometimes, once you start listening, following lines, connections, versions, variants - a single visit to the Max Hunter Folk Song Collection is like a voyage to another universe of possibility (look up Mrs Pearl Brewer - one of my favourite singers of all time). Maybe it's like the stars of Orion we were disussing the other day below the line - in the towns and cities you don't get many stars, but the further into the wilderness you get, the whole sky is ablaze. That's how Traditional Song feels to me - a blazing firmament of joyful folk infinity before which I stand in wondrous awe.