How many Mudcatters have heard a singer in concert, on a live recording or on the radio where the accompaniment is simple - guitar, banjo etc. That's the essence of folkmusic to me - simple, direct. Then you buy the CD only to find it overproduced with nasty innapropriate things like keyboards, saxophones, strings, choirs ... the lot, so wrecking everything. I guess the record producers must think that this will help sell more records. Am I in the minority or can we persuade them otherwise?