Every good thing can be abused (even Mudcat). One reason why RUS is so widespread is that it is amazingly good in its selection from a number of pools of folk and neo-pop music of a certain era. Any book that contains John Riley, Pollution, and Up on the Roof in the same book is doing something right. As a vade mecum it is terrific. There are parts of it I hate -- like the Men section -- and it is inaccurate here and there, but all it takes is a piece of paper and some glue and you can fix that. My only real complaint is that they should have put some blank pages in at the end so you can add your own extras -- after I pasted over the Men section with other stuff, there wasnt much room left.

yours,

Peter T.