I was listening to Burl Ives 5years(half my life, at the time) before the Trio released "Tom Dooly", and they were every bit as commercial and "fluffy" as mr. Ives. If not for him and Mrs Brockulhurst {first grade teacher} who had us singing folk songs daily as a part of class I'm not sure I'd have developed the life long love of this music that I have. Mike