I agree, Dick. I think Peter Bellamy was making a point about the expectations of the folk community of that time when it came to source singers, and the idea that perhaps a sector of that community wanted the source singers to fit into a particular preconception of what they "ought" to be, rather than demonstrating a wider respect for the three-dimensional human beings that they actually were...

There's a great quote in the booklet from Mike Yates, who recorded Fred Jordan singing, that has stayed with me. He says, "I must have been pumping (Fred) for songs and was probably getting on his nerves, when he suddenly said, 'Mike, there's more to a man than just his songs.' It's something that I have tried to remember ever since."