We've gone through this enough times on Usenet. You sound like you have no idea what he sings these days. Oh, well - it's pointless to re-hash silly arguments about how performers have a right to sing songs they believe in and identify with. Perhaps you make his point for him. The discussion the post comes from was about tradition and change, if I remember correctly. (How some folks have the habit of telling people "you can't do that because it's not traditional.") Collectors collect all songs without judging them. What becomes or remains part of the tradition is what is sung, and we choose what we sing. This is what remains in the river. In the long run, no one person can stop something from happening in a tradition, only start or promote something. If it weren't for song collectors, many beautiful songs wouldn't be available to us. If it weren't for singers who choose a handful of songs to make their own, the songs would be museum pieces, frozen in time.