Yeah, Little Hawk, I enjoy blues when it's done by good practitioners thereof, but with some folks, it can wear kinda thin after a bit.

I don't do blues myself, not because I don't like it when it's well-done, but because I stink at it. Ballads, sea songs, lyrical-type folk songs make up most of my repertoire. Plus a few selected poems that have been set to music (Richard Dyer-Bennet's setting of Byron's "So We'll Go No More A-roving," for example). In fact, I do a lot of the same stuff the R.D-B does, but my singing voice is entirely different. I'm a low bass-baritone.

Don Firth