...and I expect Tom just smiled and nodded....*grin*.....

There is, for me, the 'authority' problem...that is, when someone of **STATURE** does a song in a new way...which then completely overwhelms an older, or traditional way.

I am thinking particularly of an old hymn (maybe brusharbor?) called "Bright Morning Stars Are Rising"...I heard a lovely rendition on a set of records called "Music of the Ozarks"...sung by a group of singers from the hills of Arkansas, and I learned it. Then Joe Hickerson, of the Library of Congress, and a few others discovered a more 'interesting' tune, which went up and down more and a had almost a bit of 'sean nos' quality about it. Lovely tune, but NOT the simple, powerful one I had learned to love...now, when I try to sing it occasionally in THIS town...*grin*, there is almost palpable resistance to doing my version..It is not a big deal, but it is frustrating.....same thing happens when someone famous does a reworked version of a song on a big selling CD...thereafter it's "Oh, that's not the way The GrundlePluckers do it!".....never mind if it has been recorded more traditionally 8 times before...