Oh, I believe in a folk process, but the jury's still out as the whether or not it's the folk process. As this illustrates, process is part and parcel of all musics and isn't exclusive, or somehow most apparent, in this thing we call folk music.

Thanks for the back-ground on Surfin' Bird - quite a process going on there as you say. I take Jim's point about stripping things down to the essence, but this is no randomness, but a sequence of consummate reductions to the very essence of the thing. That said I love all the versions equally...

Kemence version? It's been on the cards for a while actually. Maybe now's the time.