Thanks for all the interesting comments and thoughts.The texts for the songs on Volume I of the Warner Collection are either in my mother's book, Traditional American Folksongs, or on the Appleseed Website, www.appleseedrec.com
The texts for vol II: "Nothing Seems Better to Me: Music of Frank Proffitt and North Carolina" have been sent off to the web site and, it is my understanding, will be up shortly. Brother Gerret and I edited nothing out of the recordings we selected for the CDs.
We will, in fact, be doing songs and stories from the collection in NY City on Friday, 3/16 http://members.aol.com/nypinewood/club.html#upclub
and Washington, DC on Sat. 3/17
http://www.fsgw.org/concert.htm#1264
Right now, the Washington writeup is better.
We will be singing with Tim Eriksen of Cordelia's Dad, who stayed after us to get the collection on CD. We are planning to have a v. good time, and do the concert/programs elsewhere. We'll be on tour in North Carolina the first half of November: Duke, Appalachian State Univ., etc.
info will eventually be up on www.jeffwarner.com You can reach me there, if you have questions, at jeff@jeffwarner.com