I would suggest that this whole discussion has missed a basic point of what is going on in the Rounder remixes. Which is, whether one thinks sampling and such is legitimate or not, what does it have to do with folk music? If electronic sampling of old recordings, done to a modern dance beat, is a legitimate contemporary folk style, why doesn't folk alliance invite some of the major contemporary sampling folks down to alliance? If not, why does it make it more "folk" if the modern dance music uses material collected by Alan Lomax fifty years ago? If I cut a Rembrandt painting up and make a collage out of it, that can be a viable artistic statement, but obviously it is modern art, not part of the classical Dutch painting tradition. Or to put it differently, it is MY statement, not Rembrandt's. If the Rounder folks are arguing that people have a right to make contemporary music using old recordings, I would not argue. (Though I think it stinks if they feel they have a better right than some mixmaster in Brooklyn because they have the money to control this historic catalogue.) If they are arguing that this is a way of introducing a new audience to Almeida Riddle, I would refer them back to the Rembrandt collage, and ask whether such works -- whatever other value they may have -- are doing Rembrandt any favors. I did not know Almeida Riddle, but it seems to me that if she had been into the latest hip sounds of her day, she would have been singing Jo Stafford, not ancient ballads.....