So obvious nobody has mentioned it: It's all about CASH. Rounder can make more CASH from hoked up, tricked out, and screwed over remixes than it can from the originals. So they go for the CASH.

Far worse is recycling the living record of real singers into a mere source of exploitable (i.e., CASH-producing) sound, which is then pureed into musical Soylent Green.

Sure the originals will still exist (till deleted by Rounder), but odds are even fewer stores will carry them. And the remixes themselves say the originals are obsolete - SOOOO 20th Century!!!

Listen to that NPR story - if you can stand it. Will the unlettered and unlawyered singers or their heirs receive any royalties from this project? Don't bet on it. That's one tradition Rounder is unlikely to mess with.

"A man ain't nothin' but a man," says John Henry. Tough luck for a man.

But that's show biz.