>> Lay off a very decent, sincere guy <<

I thought I'd made it pretty clear I had no agenda against either MacColl or Lloyd. Collating, improving, or patching-up songs is something I've done plenty of myself, although creating what were in effect new songs from fragments, poems and collations, then disseminating them amongst enthusiastic young revival singers, stretches the definition of "folk process" to the very limit, if you ask me. But when, for instance, I'm asked to give a workshop on "Industrial Songs", it might be no bad thing to have an idea of whether any singer predating the folk revival actually sang the songs in question. That has nothing to do with museums or curatorship.