LOL funny you should mention the issue of Homeward... Mike mentioned it the other night when I read him some of the posts...

Mike & Charlie have done workshops on C Fox Smith songs for a few of years now at NEFFA - New England Folk Festival held near the Boston area each spring for many years now. Since this is an all volunteer music & dance event, it is the musical setting of her poems that got them the workshop and more exposure for her poetry.

Just as there will always be lumpers and splitters, we will always have preservationists vs. conservationists... another point raised by Mike. He concluded with his thought that he doesn't really care what others think as long as he feels that he has done justice to the work. So until her ghost appears to "set him right", Mike will continue on.

I would add that if the critics ever heard him sing his songs, they might well change their minds. So I guess he needs to plug away at his first CD.