Brilliant Frank.

The is one constant I find in folk music is not the melody or song because they are changeable and changing. The second someone plays a song on a guitar he first heard on a banjo and sings it without the words in front of him the song has changed. I think the tradition of traditional music is this change and there oin lies the beauty of folkmusic to me.

The one unchanging part of the tradition is the singing. Not the "what" is being sung but the act of singing itself. The somgs will change overtime and go from endearing to unacceptable and back again in a few generations. But someone is always singing them. I think thats where B.B. gets the Bop and Doc gets the Swing.

Great thread Martin, I think we are just in a "All British" "All MOnth" kinda twist right now, stick around for "The Great Blues of Greenland Month."

Don