Discussion's cool. Surely much of the appeal of a song is its provenance; I'd go so far as to say that its provenance accounts for its numinosity (or is it numinouness?). At a Fylde Festival singaround earlier today (about 2 hours ago) I happily sourced my rendering of Out With my Gun in the Morning to the singing of Jimmy Knights with reference to both the Broadside in the Axon Collection and Jim Causeley's track on the Woodbine & Ivy Band album. If someone had said Sing the fucking song man, stop talking about it I would have told them that whilst never being numinous ourselves, we Traddies are nevertheless drawn to the mystery that, in the pure sweet communion of simply singing a song, radiates its divine charge in our hearts / souls and in this way are our lives made complete. This is but one of the Bounties of Traditional Song and we do well to explore the source and account for it by way of as wide a credit as we can. Chapter and, indeed, verse. Amen, amen, amen, amen.

Who said Folk was a religion?