but the people who did F.W.B. never went around the country giving workshops and leading sings, either...I have 8-10 books which are a resource for words and/or tunes but never were used like RUS...remember, RUS is intentionally slanted toward 'feel good' songs, and that is all that many want to sing..so I guess it serves its purpose...

(*grin*...Roger, when you have a 'sponsored' sing, like FSGW does every month, it is politically correct to offer everyone a chance to sing, but that can lead to some pretty slooooowwww evenings, it's true. Still, it can also sometimes be very nice, and it allowed yours truly a format to get used to singing in front of the very ggod local people 20+ years ago..I'd much rather go back to the 'hootenanny' format of many years ago, but no one seems to do that very much here...)

[hootenannies were gatherings where the accomplished and/or pushy attendees did the major portion of the leading, according to rules too arcane and socially complex to fathom, while others learned and played along till they began to 'get' it...and were drawn into the mainstream slowly...this produced some amazing evenings of music, but totally offended and frustrated those who could not cope with the themes and pecking order..]