"I would like to hear your performance of American songs, Don, with or without guitar, and I have in the past put you into Google...anything on the web..?"

Nothing on the web so far, save by googling you can find some of the articles on folk music that I have written, particularly for "Victory Review" magazine—and of course, being led back to Mudcat posts. So far, no songs. But I have recently acquired some studio-quality recording equipment which I am in the process of learning to use, and when I get my studio set up, I intend to record a number of CDs. I will undoubtedly put some of the songs on the internet, possibly through MySpace, or more probably, a web site of my own. But that will be awhile.

But be forewarned! I will not limit my CDs or what I put on the web to only American songs. I will present samplings of the full run of my repertoire. Also, whether I accompany a song or ballad with my guitar depends on whether or not I think an accompaniment (as the quotation above says) enriches the whole effect.

Once I have these up on the web (and as I say, it will be awhile yet), if you don't want to hear me sing anything other than American songs, be careful what you click on.

Don Firth (one who finds pleasure and enlightenment in cultural diversity)

P. S. By the way, David, I first became actively interested in folk music, to the point of learning songs and study the subject, in 1952. I think that works out to about fourteen times as long as you've been at it. And as I say, you've watched folk music on television;   I've done folk music on television.