I posted this at Footstompin and thought it deserved a mention here as well.

Joe Penland is a traditional singer from North Carolina whose ancestors came from Scotland and brought the old ballads with them; he also learned songs on the porch of Lee and Berzilla Wallin. (If you've listened to the Folkways CD Dark Holler, or seen the John Cohen Movie 'End of an Old Song' you've seen or heard music music of the Wallins and their kin, the Nortons, Chandlers, and others. And if you've heard David Ferrard sing 'Pretty Saro' you've heard Joe's, and the Wallin's, and their predecessors influence and tradition.)

Joe is raising funds at Indiegogo for a project researching and recording the songs of his ancestor Mary Sands, who was recorded by by Cecil Sharp.

It is a great project. Here's a link:
http://www.indiegogo.com/The-Mary-Sands-Project

(For an article by Mike Yates on Madison county ballad singers, Mary Sands, Scots origins, et al, see
http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/m_sands.htm )

... by the 2oth century, apparently only Dillard Chandler still new that the Clyde (as mentioned in a ballad) was a river in Scotland...That's a long time to preserve the name of a river that most people couldn't place.