Jerry:

I still sing lots of songs that might have been included in that Anthology, although I do not have a copy of it -- Wild Goose Grasses, The Cuckoo, Polly, Pretty Polly, Turtle Dove, are a few that pop to mind off hand. I really should get a set, from what you say.

James Taylor, Paul Simon or Joanie Mitchell are not folk-music sources, although they are talented singers and songwriters. But the culture overall has been through a watershed change since the days of Blind Willy and the Carters -- urbanization, industrialization, and electronification have markedly changed where music grows from. And we're on the downside of that watershed, in a manner of speaking.

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