I'd like to bring this thread back to its beginning. Lizzie darling, you and I have never conversed before though through this forum I know of your love for certain pop-folk singers. I played your first KR cut linked on your very first post to see what you were espousing now, and heard a song plainly sung, with a bit of a Celtic Twilight feel in the mercifully sparse accompaniment. (I do not dislike, KR, I own a few of her CDs). But that paarticular song is that I missed when it was first written and recorded some 20 or so years ago, I believe, but it struck me with some immediacy when I heard the recording by Peta Webb & Ken Hall. THAT one forced me to sit up and listen to the words. KR's doesn't. And that for me is what folk music is about, professors or not.