I need to acquire a copy of "Folksongs of the Upper Thames" -- I was introduced to it when Jeff Warner started singing "Joke and Push About the Pitcher" and gave me a photocopy of the page.

There are a lot of singers out there today (in the US at least) who have never heard of Frankie Armstrong, Shirley Collins, Bob and Ron Copper, even Louis Killen and others.

If they are not currently recording or being played on the "folk" shows (which seem to tend towards contemporary singer-songwriters anyway), they're unfamiliar with the singer, the purer arrangements, and a lot of the songs. That means a lot of material is "new" again.

Linn