please give me details of collectors who collected self composed songs from traditional singers

I was listening to a traditional singer and his mother on this Saturday evening in London.

There is no doubt that songs that both of them sang were self-penned.

Their songs are currently being noted.

Since Sharp and B-G were only interested in what they thought of as traditional songs- they would have ignored (I guess) songs that people said were self-penned.

There was a local singer in my wife's s home village who had some traditional songs but he wrote a song virtually every day, including one for our wedding.

Dick - you keep banging on about Bob Blake. Any other examples?