GUEST (19 Mar 05 - 12:17 AM), that is a cheap shot. SRS has answered your question, but let me just say that I do know a fair amount about her background in folk music, and it's extensive.

There are many folklorists, ethnomusicologists, archivists, and others associated with various aspects of folk music who are not what one might call "practicing folk musicians," in that they don't perform folk songs in front of audiences—or perform at all. One of the most knowledgeable (about folk music) people I knew didn't sing or play a musical instrument at all, but for decades his house was available almost any weekend if a group of folksingers wanted to get together and have a songfest. He also had a huge collection of folk music records, which, as long as we were careful with them, we were welcome to borrow to learn songs from.

Let me ask you this:   would you raise a question if, by some miracle, Francis James Child posted on Mudcat? F. J. Child was an English professor at Harvard. There is no record that he ever played a musical instrument. You do know who F. J. Child is, don't you?

Obviously Susu's Hubby is here strictly for the politics. By the way, Doug, how long has it been since you've posted to a music thread?   

Don Firth