For some strange reason, this thread reminds me a lot of the one in which Wavy Davy insisted that if I wanted to be really true to American folk traditions, I should drop the English ballads, songs from the Southern Appalachians, fishing, lumbering and cowboy songs and such, and limit myself strictly to Native American chanting and drumming.

Me, whose great-grandfather came over from Scotland and my mother's parents emigrated from Sweden. Yup! Native American chanting and drumming. Makes a lot of sense. . . .

Don Firth