 He was after English ballads at the expense of banjo songs. He hated the banjo. Many of you might also agree with him, but you're wrong. Piedmont blues material that had seeped into the mountains with the railway, he also ignored. He ignored Italian folk songs sung by the immigrants brought into West Virginia and other regions by the coal companies. And he also loathed to a degree, though in his notes he did say some of them are delightful, Holiness Baptist hymns and other sort of evangelical hymns.