Cap'n,

I don't believe that I was being presumptious. It was you who talked about trad. singers not having to CONSCIOUSLY revive a song. The use of that word implies to me me that you think of them as in some way acting by instinct rather than design.

And I notice that you haven't addressed my point about you constantly confusing category and quality. Both traditional and revival singers can be brilliant or bad and speaking purely aesthetically it makes very little, if any , difference to which category a particular singer belongs.