Thank you Barry.
"but what makes you think your 'understanding of the traditional arts' is the right one."
I don't know I am right, I think I might be, but that's as far as it goes; I participate in forums such as these to learn as much as I do to offer an opinion.
I repeat; my assessment of the Cap'n's (or anybody's) opinion of what he is IS NOT A CRITICISM; it is an attempt to understand the tradition - not everybody's bag, but it happens to be mine.
Whatever Des O'Connor likes to call himself, genealogy will always be an 'alogy', no matter how many people call it an 'ology'
Jim Carroll.