Can I clear up one mistake repeated above:

The Ballads and Blues Club at the Princess Louise and various other venues was organised by Malcolm Nixon. It DID NOT BECOME THE SINGERS CLUB. All the people mentioned above; Lomax, Ennis, Lloyd, Rinzler, Cameron, plus Dominic Behan, Sandy and Caroline Paton, Rambling Jack Elliott, Fred Gerlach, Dean Gitter, Oscar Brand I could go on, ALL appeared at the Ballads and Blues Club before Ewan and Peggy decided to go off and start the singers club with Bruce Dunnett.
Ewan's dictum was if you are American it's ok to sing American Songs and if you are English you should sing English songs. However if you were born in England of Scottish parents it would be perfectly ok to sing bothy ballads in a mock Scots accent and be accompanied by the five string banjo, just like they used to in the crofts.
The Ballads and Blues Club continued using it's previous broad policy.
Just wanted to get that straight.

But he did write one or two good songs and some rubbish too!