With the rise of digitized recording thousands of hours of old songs and tunes some recorded at the turn of the 19/20C will survive and be available for anybody who wants to go and look & listen.

Millions of hours of songs and tunes are available from the last 50 years and they will remain a source and an inspiration for anybody who wants to sing and play.

Rock music has a habit of returning to the blues for inspiration and popular music in the UK and Ireland can do the same with old songs and tunes.

The context is crucial. Old songs survived because they were mostly good and worked in small acoustic places. Social dance and its tunes survived for the same reason. Most people don't want to go to a folk song club every week as many of us did in the 60/70s, Matty Groves can only die so many times a year for most of us.

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