Gosh what an odd sound!

surely the guy was a natural tenor, he had that upward lilt that Josef Locke said made tenors irresistable to women.

Of coure as a sixties type person, I had come across the name (along with Niles) in many songbooks, but I had ever really checked him out. (Well lets face it you couldn't just check people out with the flick of a switch before the internet.)

When you think this was possibly the major repository of folksong people looked to, you realise what a leap of imagination - people like Pete Seeger and Ewan MacColl made.

When you look at that repertoire - you realise that this was definitely a stopping off place for 'the tradition' - one that is neglected and swept aside.