Having enough people interested in listening to that sort of thing to avoid such an an important collection doesn't lie abandoned for as long as it has is a better one Steve
As far as the 'in print' thing is concerned
One of the wisest things aver wrote about the ballads was by Bronson
"When is a ballad not a ballad - when it has no tune"
He might have addded "when it is not sung"
THe pioneers got these things from mouth to paper - now they need tobe put back in singers' mouths if they are to survive
Jim Carroll