All Right, All Ready! Don't be so literal. I suppose that I am a singer/songwriter, myself and I don't literally "Write" songs. I don't even know how to write songs. Perhaps I am a singer/song-thinker-upper? Maybe my musical illiteracy makes me more authentic and pure? When I do a concert, do I alternate between being a folk singer on those songs that I have learned through the RECORDED tradition (forget aural tradition for most of us, unless you considerate it the aural tradition when you learn the song from someone who learned it off a record)and then become a singer/song-thinker-upper on the songs that I've written? If you think that most song-thinker uppers who play the folk circuit are in it for the money, you are crazy. Money?, where is that? Do people who are primarily traditional folk singers who write songs too have split personalities? This whole discussions seems to center around singer/songwriters who may love folk music, but have other creative desires within them, and then are considered impure. Music is to lift the spirit. Paul McCartney is no less of a man than Clarence Ashley was...