I like both instrumental and vocal music. Some friends who run some of the recording booths at festivals mention occasionally a militant instrumental only faction that want CD's and tapes "with no sangin'" on them. I would be hard pressed to think of an instrumentalist that could hold an audience's attention just with their selection of tunes (I'm thinking of artists who wind up doing extended humorous introductions to their tunes as part of the show).

At home I may put on an all instrumental recording and do other work. But I rarely do that with vocal recordins, because I stop what I'm doing and pay attention to the songs. In the old time field there's something hypnotic about the way the tunes are played (I'm thinking of night campfire sessions where the tunes seem to get the musician's into a group trance).