I looked at the thread title and ignored it, thinking it was 'nothing' I would care about...when I should have been here at the beginning, since I both follow folk music and have studied 'nothing' extensively. I took an entire course in Jean-Paul Sartré's "Being & Nothingness" where we debated such things as the 'phenomenological & existential reality of absence'........

and let me tell you, in all my years I NEVER saw a better exposition of the myriad aspects of 'nothing'!

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained"

I think I'll go sing "Nottumun Town" and "Talkin' Nothin'"