Folk music and singing is alive and beautiful, it needs all who participate, those that need help and those that dont.
If everone starts from perfection where is there to go and what is there to achieve?
Even if perfection has been achieved there is a time in our lives when it deserts us. I never got there, Virginia please keep singing.
Jack you have hit a nail firmly on its head.
If we all had the short sighted view of Jim Carroll folk music would wither and die.