Martin,

As Lenny Bruce once said when trying to illustrate the value of having courses in the public schools on Sex Education. (Many were saying, then, it was just a road to promiscuity.) --- "Giving students a warning against syphilis is not a direct order for them to go out and contract it!"

Some of us who heard the various trios, including the one you seem to be fixated upon, knew that Bob Gibson (who we heard first doing the story songs from history and the roots songs of the Ohio River.) Songs like "Lily Of The West", "John Riley"--and all the broken token songs. "Lost Jimmy Whalen", "Red Iron Ore", "Mattie Groves"---even his updated rendering of "Sweet Betsy From Pike", "Goin' Down To Brownsville--Take That Right Hand Road", "No More Cane On The Brazos"---so many others that were done very much closer to the roots than "3 Jolly Coachmen" and/or "Banua", or their corporate Playboy's Penthouse insipid re-write of "It Takes A Worried Man".

It's just a matter of what you liked best. And that's about it. You STOPPED back there---and didn't dig any deeper into the real thing. That's how I see it...

Art Thieme