You did very well if you managed your singing and playing without direct or indirect use of EFDSS publications, recordings and other things that derive from the archives.
I have not retired[do instead of did].
Steve,correction, since you seem hellbent on being pedantic, 99 .9 per cent had no connection with the EFDSS,very very little owed itself IN THE WAY OF RECORDINGS AND PUBLICATIONS to the EFDSS.
I didnt have to go to c sharphouse to hear traditional singers, I lived in Suffolk.