Dick,
Thanks for that. I think I felt a lot of what you are alluding to. Once, a while ago, I asked in this forum about Pat Foster, whose balladeer style of approaching his found songs always appealed to me in the same way that some of Bob Gibson and Harry Haywire McClintock and Jim Ringer and and Ellen Steckert and Jimmie Rodgers and Vivienne Richman did. Your response to my asking about Foster indicated a less than pleasant experience for you in dealing with him.

It was strange, but maybe not, when I realized I had to separate some of my favorite singers contributions to our folk world from them as personal entities whose feet of clay were all too apparent on way too many occasions once I got to know them. That I could make that separation was always, I thought, a good way to see this world in general. Once again, the paradox. The two sides to every coin! (Every jogger kills many insects as they run...)

All the best,

Art