One reason to combine threads about Clare's own tune collection and the modern settings of his poems: it shows how much better Clare's own taste was. A modern folkie put together a show of his own settings of Clare and presented it at Whitby a few years ago - cringe-inducing mediocrity. For a lot of them he could have used one of Clare's own tunes with stunning effect - instead we got something as bad as Kate Rusby's rewrites.