Little Neo, You set me a challange that will not go unanswered,however, it may take me a day to assembel the list with isbn#. Until that time, listen to old Corries Music etc. I can hear the rant now oh no commerical folk singers aarrrrrrggggggghhhhhh! well they too were puriests until they became famous. The old Clancy bros. songbook has some history, the Richard Dyer-Bennett book has some history, a good Child Ballad book will hopefully have something. The books i am talking about come from Scotland and Ireland and I will get them for you. also try to remember there are to races of people in Scotland. Highlanders(celt/picts) and Lowlanders (saxon/normans) highland music was mostly in galic lowland music was english (Walter Scott/Bobby Burns) try not to confuse the two.