Hi Obie,
I have some CD about Buddy and Natalie McMaster and other with old records of old fiddler, and I have listen what you say. Some tracks are not so good to listen, for the quality, but by these I'm trying to learn the "originary" way to play.
For this reason I like to listen many "new fiddlers", but to be not a bad copy of them, I prefer study by old records like Folkways Record.

Are you from Cape Breton ?

Vincenzo