Paul Burke: I agree with your remarks about Stephen Baldwin. It is difficult to see how many young aspiring musicians would listen to those recordings and find a viable role model. Which is why I put a link to the article about him, you do need a bit of background to make sense of music wrenched out of context and recording from an aging musician away from his support system. Compare and contrast with the context in which Michael Coleman was recorded, or the early New Orleans musicians for example!
But after a bit of playing tunes, you can return to Baldwin and think, aha, that's interesting how he plays hornpipes, or whatever.
    I was interested that the original poster was referring to a session run by Will Duke. Now, if I wanted to advise someone how to find out about English music, I would have said leave your instrument in its case, go and find Will Duke and Dan Quinn and listen to them for a few hours(or days).
Mind you it's all southern lumpy polkas with them, with never a reel in sight!