What kind of berk do you think I am, anyway?[quote]
like The Skibbereen Eagle, watching the Tsar,I am at present observing and watching your posts,to decide on the magnitude of berkdom,do you come from Berkshire?
But all the Martin Carthy's in the world would have precious little to draw upon if not for the traditional singers you and others continually disparage and the folklorists who have collected their work.[QUOTE]
I am not disparaging anyone,I appreciate for example many of the songs Kennedy collected.,he also collected some dross,with which he padded his book up.
but how many songs have been missed because of the prejudices of folk song collectors , for starters lets look at the great man himself,Cecil J Sharp,can you explain why he collected precious little in the way of industrial folk songs,
Mike Yates would never have collected or recoreded the fine singing of Bob Blake if he had heeded KENNEDY and we would have been the poorer for it,
and so it goes on,priceless BERKDOM,prejudices.,and nonsensical artificial boundaries which allow colectors to collect tin pan alley rubbish because it has been learned orally,but reject a song that the traditional singer may have written himself because it has not been learned orally or not been folk processed,regardless of the quality of the song.