I'm surprised, Amos, not only at your general attitude about the Trio, but also that you would say, "I haven't heard it, but....they would have trivialized it". Give me a break on the authenticism snobbery. You know, the Weavers massaged lyrics and smoothed harmonies in order to make music from the hills and "protest" songs more accessible to the public. Were they "trivializing" the songs? Dave Guard was a great singer, as Lee Hayes was a great singer of his era, and their versions of songs did not "lose meaning" just because they were slicked up. Get over that "hipper than thou" stuff- we were all talking like that back in 1965, and it was just as dumb then. 80% of the people today who recognize "The Reuben James" know this wonderful song because the Trio put it on a record- people who didn't even know Woody Guthrie ever made a record. The other 20% of us went out and found the Woody record and loved it, but that's about all you can expect- there's only a small market for the genuine article. That doesn't mean the "cleaned up" version is automatically lousy.