I think any serious singer/student should be exposed to the 'old' stuff..meaning the Child ballads and similar stuff....don't know how many of the old 33s of Ewan MacColl, A.L. Lloyd, and the Kennedy-Lomax collections, etc. are on CD yet...but they should be....I could go downstairs and make a pile a foot high of 'records' everyone should have!

The School of Scottish Studies is another set that blows me away...