When Paul O. Jenkins posted the original post, I went straight to Amazon and ordered the hard-back. $50.00 list, but Amazon was selling it for $45.00. Got it hot off the press.

Most interesting! Among other things, great pictures, including one of Dyer-Bennet singing with Leadbelly.

I had the pleasure and privilege of meeting and talking with Dyer-Bennet on two occasions, once in 1957, then again in 1962. Very personable, and he was quite encouraging about my ambitions as a singer of folk songs, or "minstrel."

I found the distinction he drew between a folk singer and a minstrel or troubadour to be quite valuable and enlightening.

Don Firth