Laprelle is fantastic and performs with her mother and family, yes, true, but she has also talked about learning songs from recordings; the Madison county singers are 12th or 13th generation ballad singers. If you weren't able to hear the whole piece then you will not have heard that the point was about the tradition being passed down *for generations* in families and the old tradition was unaccompanied singing by one person--as in the CD Dark Holler, or John Cohen's film End of and Old Song.

But wait--why are people griping?!--how wonderful to have this on NPR.