Hey, cowboypoet, thanks for introducing yourself. My grandpa used to sing a version of Captain Wedderburns Courtship long,long ago, so your 70 page paper sounds interesting enough to read! I haven't checked the DT yet but if your scholarship isn't in there, maybe someday you could add it?

I am pretty new too so I guess I have to step up and introduce. I just like ballads and beautiful tunes and Donegal roots music. Usedta sing for people but got a few too many 'you know any James Taylor' requests and stopped trying. Grew up in Chicago with all the other marymargarets but have spent my adult life mostly in the South. I'm in Jackson, Miss. Current musical interest: arranging for four-part vocal. I'd like to try Wild Mountain Thyme next because I think it would be so accessible to people around here, but am I going to go through copyright hell over a contested authorship, I wonder??

many thanks to Max and all those who share so much lore and music with so many people, even those who try their souls.

PattyClink

(is this where you have to explain yer nickname? this is an island nickname; were I from Arranmore or Beaver Island, there would be so many people with my first and surnames, I would be given a shorthand name reflecting who my da was)