Amen to that, Bob!

When I first took up the guitar and started singing folk songs back in 1952, it was hard to avoid singing folk songs that were not already in Burl Ives' repertoire. Some of which I already more or less knew before I got interested in singing them myself.

When I first went to Campus Music and Gallery in Seattle's University District looking for records to learn songs from, the folk music bin was pretty sparse. All 10" LPs. There was one by Pete Seeger (whom I had never heard of before - his "Darling Corey" album on Folkways), one Richard Dyer-Bennet (a high school friend of mine had one of his records - I thought he sounded like an old English minstrel), one Susan Reed (I had heard her on the radio and saw her in a movie in 1948), and three by Burl Ives, with whom I had been familiar since I first heard him on the radio in the mid-1940s.

Despite my limited college student budget, I bought them all.

Don Firth