Interesting question and thread title. Which ever way I look, I am shallow but as time goes on, even though I have yet to get there, I have more and more desire to find and listen to recordings of players like Michael Coleman and find out how they treated the music I like the most. Maybe in a couple of years time I will get round to actively doing this.

Currently the only old recordings I have are a boxed set called "Farewell To Ireland" which I may or may not have got before joining Mudcat - I know I was reading the newsgroups at the time but MC came several months later in my "Internet history" but I can be sure it wasn't as a result of a suggestion from any forum. In fact, I have yet to buy anything as a result of discussion here although I do have a growing list of wants that I hope I will soon be able to start satisfying (I've had a "pay rise") - I have seen some great suggestions, most notably for me in a thread on box players as there are several I want to buy...

As for the directions Marty mentioned, again I am shallow as they have yet to become areas of special interest (although I can enjoy listening to most music) to me. Maybe in time, I will broaden as well as deepen...

Jon