I suppose one thing that has hampered the spread of the appreciation of source singers is the cost of their recordings.

Pete Coe had a nice selection of trad singer cds with him, when I saw him. I bought the Joe Heaney one, but I should have liked to have bought the Harry Cox and Sam Larner ones. At fifteen quid a pop - their albums are around the most expensive. Twas ever thus. I remeber when Stefan Grossman was the only source of recording by Mississipi John Hurt ad others. the companion tape to his Blues guitar tape book (with classics like Shake that Thing was more than a weeks wages when I was a young teacher _ I couldn't afford it.

My own recordings I can't even bloody give away - so scuse me if I don't go white with fury at the publics unfamiliarity with albums that don't sound as though they've been any great expense to produce, yet cost an arm and a leg.