I will record in my own good time, David, and when I do, the songs I record will be ones I have been singing to audiences for a good fifty years. I will also include songs I have learned just recently. I have yet not decided which songs I will record (I'm making a list, and I hope, eventually, to record my enter repertoire, but that will take a bit of time), but the songs I sing have been—and continue to be—drawn from a variety of sources and cultures:   England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, plus Anglo-American songs and ballads, including love songs, cowboy songs, railroading songs, sea chanteys. . . .    If it was collected by Bishop Percy, Sir Walter Scott, Francis James Child, Cecil J. Sharp, the Lomaxes, the Warners, et al, I consider it fair game.

I can assure you that I will most emphatically not be recording any county/rock. And "Amerindian" music is simply foreign to me, even to listen to except briefly, and simply does not "speak" to me the same way songs from the list in the above paragraph do—those are the songs of my culture.

In the movie "The Agony and the Ecstasy," the Pope (played by Rex Harrison) complained bitterly to Michelangelo (played by Charlton Heston) up on the scaffold busily painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, "Buonarroti [Michelangelo's last name], when will you make an end!??" To which Michelangelo responded from on high, "When I am finished!!"

That's when you'll have a chance to hear my recordings, David. When I am finished! I will be singing a variety of songs from a variety of cultures, I will be singing them on pitch, and most of them will be with guitar accompaniment.

You probably won't like them.

Don Firth