"If Bert Lloyd and the rest of the collectors were discovered to have written every word it wouldn't make an ounce of difference to the continued performance and reception of folk"

A similar thought occurred to me when I discovered that 3/4 of The Sloe Gin Set, from Bellowhead's Burleque recording, was actually written by Messers Spiers and Boden. I had a brief vision of the traddies screaming that therefore it wasn't folk music...but it passed *LOL*