The death of Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary is noted on another thread on Mudcat and there is an obituary by Dave Laing in today's The Guardian and on-line at http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/sep/17/mary-travers-obituary.

One quotation from her by the writer stands out for me. It's where she says:-

"....you really did not have to have a lot of talent to sing folk music."

Right, that ought to set the cat amongst the pigeons on this forum!