Have you folks found THE FOLKSINGERS WORDBOOK? (Oak Publications)---No tunes--just words of MANY songs with chord suggestions. ANY book is just that--suggestions to what you might want to do with it. Change 'em if ya want to. That's the proverbial "folk process"! (Although my uncle told me once that he thought the "folk process" was Odetta's hair-do! ;-}

The F.W.B. contains so many more songs that I might want to find than does RUS. RUS is a pop music fake book. I guess thet's why EVERYTHING now-a-days is considered fake music (folk music) to so many.

I need to move in a short while so I've been looking at my book collection to see if I'll ever really use THAT particular book again!!??? If the answer is a resounding NO, then I just give it away to a friend who "COLLECTS" folk stuff--no matter what. At my age & after all I've been through recently, collecting for the sake of collecting is, like urban sprawl and unbridled paving of corn fields, the IDEOLOGY OF A CANCER CELL! If I never need that book again, which I probably won't, I do know where I can borrow it!!! And it saves huge amount of weight/stress on the timbers of my dwelling---that's the only way, lately, that I can seem to lose weight! ;-)

The first book I got rid of (and it felt great to do it) was "RISE UP SINGING"---simply don't wanna store all that tin pan alley stuff. If I want to hear it I can find Charlie Parker or Chet Baker or Mary Lou Williams or Monk or Sinatra and hear it done right!!!

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