Having finally faced the fact (tough for an old geezer) that multitasking can be fun, I have opened a file called "Mudcatwisdom" to which I paste an occasional pearl. Checking there re. this question, I find that I scrap-booked a statement by Dick Greenhaus, "If anyone wishes only for music that reflects current sensitivities, might I suggest that folk music might be the wrong place to look?" Amen. I don't like gratuitous violence, or anything else just for its own sake, but folk music portrays the world rather realistically, and that is a big, big plus. I don't think hearing "Little Brown Bulls" is going to motivate anyone to go chop down a tree, or "Greenland Fisheries" to go kill a whale. We do have to be careful what we model, but the "sensitivity" pendulum has swung way too far in the pollyana direction.

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PS to Jim--Maybe this isn't the ideal solution, but Doc Watson did a song which sounds to me a lot like B/Ohio, but with totally diff. words--"It's midnight on the stormy deep ...." I happen coincidentally to be working on it myself, so I'll post lyrics tomorrow or so. I agree--lovely melody.