Bob,
Over the years, I have done what I've done. Ethically, all the times had different sensitivities. We sang anybody's song we damn well wanted to. We wrote songs to any tune we wished to utilize. We taped others all through the mesmerizing years of the folk revival in the USA. I had thousands of tapes of everything. Over the last dozen years I've been unable to play my instruments, but I had tons of too much time on my hands. I went through ALL of the tapes I had of myself and of others doing our music. Computers came along and I saved what I thought of as my favorite songs just for listening onto about 100 full CDs.

The rest went onto at least a couple thousand other CDs.

In the 1970s, all the reels got put onto cassettes--to make it easier to take and play music in the car. During the 1980s and 1990s I put those onto CDs----at least the things I figured I would possibly / probably want to listen to during the years I've got left on this planet.

When I finished the project, ALL those cassettes went to friends who are collectors---or to friends I thought would just find them good listening---and, even, maybe, important listening because some of it were "field recordings" I had made of huge flames of life whose music informed the romance of the treasure hunt I was engaged in all those years.

I sang the songs -- and I recorded them too. As I said, we did what we did. And now some try to say say I was illegal all along. --- I do suspect that goes along with the insanity of our times.

Art