If it's "COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL" does that mean it can ONLY be sung the way it was written? Is that how folk music now works & gets passed on? If so, it sounds to me as if it's dead in the water before it gets a chance to sink or swim.

Can or should artistic control be carried this far?
I know it sounds as if it was an oversight by the singer & there was an apology made but is it that important that the author should demand that it can & should be sung only that way & that is the only "right" way to sing it? Was not the original idea of copyright's intent to try to enhance the artistic flow & cause the public's creative juices to grow. Sounds more like a song in chains to me, sorry.

I have this CD & IMHO I couldn't care less if a word was changed in error, I'd be dam pleased, hearing the job they did with all the songs on this, if they had covered anything I wrote. Maybe next CD you guys will consider covering one of my songs. Do you pay royalities too, to boot? He,He,He!

Barry