Caroline and I have produced one totally dedicated "Celtic" musician, and one who plays both "Celtic" and American. Curiously, the total Celtoid was in utero when we would walk over to the Bedford Arms pub in Camden Town to hear Margaret Barry sing. Must have had some pre-natal effect. Does that confirm some kind of L. Ron Hubbard theory? (Yes, folks, we had a free baby in London on the National Health. Thanks a lot!)

Son number two was born in the Chicago area. He does blues and Appalachian music, and plays Celtic, too. Well, there have long been lots of Irish in Chicago, lots of blues players, too, and plenty of folk from Appalachia escaping joblessness down there by coming to the factories on the south shore of Lake Michigan.

I dunno. Maybe Jung had hold of a good thing when he talked about the "collective unconscious." His ideas, however, seem to have been less region-specific, and more universal. Food for thought.

Sandy