Murray MacLeod- You raised an interesting point a while back on this thread. Are you saying that songs with attributable authors are immune from the folk process? I think that one of the neatest arguments against this is in Larry Kaplan's "Song for Gail (Huntington)": Larry wrote "Good times and bad times, they're worth all the telling..." which was immediately transposed to "..all worth he telling.." by about half the singers that did the song. Is one of these "right"?

How do you feel that DigiTrad should handle this kind of thing (especially when the Noble Editor isn't familiar with what was originally written and has to deal with what someone else submitted)? This isn't presented as an excuse for "inaccuracy" but as an honest question. Maybe I should open a new thread on this. Opinions?