Dear Jim and marje,Iam someone who loves songs ,    particuarly traditional songs, and I do feel I sing best unaccompanied ,however about 1978 I realised that in order to keep doing this and to get gigs at clubs and festivals,for variety sake I needed to accompany myself. now i have also got great satisfaction from accompanying myself on the concertina,and hopefully given other people pleasure.and do not regret this at all.But for commercial reasons I had to make this decision, as undoubtedly harry cox etc would have done if they had been born fifty years later.
   Next time you go to england, go to the middlesborough ,stockton area.look up the wilson family[great unaccompanied singers]and visit Ron Angels club in Stockton , I think you will revise your opinions.DickMiles.