That's interesting, Greg - I was watching the Watersons' film "Travelling for a Living" last weekend, and one of the moments that hit home with me was when someone (perhaps the head of Topic Records?) was explaining to camera why the Watersons were important. He was essentially bemoaning the fact that there were all these singer-songwriter types who were very commercially successful, but saying that their success was undermining the whole folk genre because they had no real notion of or respect for tradition. But that the Watersons were important because they were studying the tradition and immersing themselves in the source recordings as inspiration for their music. And I laughed quite heartily to think that these same arguments that we constantly revisit were already raging 40 years ago...