Folkie Dave,you have scored some points I hope that makes you happy,ever since you came on this thread 2 years ago,your attitude has been aggressive firstly nit npicking about my incompetence with the computer key board[pretending you couldnt understand the original post].
so we have had a few examples of recent collection of self penned songs from traditional singers,no one has yet justified why its acceptable for collectors to collect self penned songs from traditional singers but not from revival singers,and why collectors dont collect traditional songs from revival singers or self composed songs from revival singers.
the whole criteria of collecting songs needs to be examined.
its a nonsense to collect self penned songs from traditional singers but not from revival singers,the self penned songs of the traditional singer have not been orally transmitted so what justification is there.
which brings me back to my point,its a load of bollocks because you are not taking into account the quality of the singer or the songs,but collecting self penned songs because they are from a traditional singer,even though the songs have not been processed or orally transmitted[which seems to be the criteria for collecting traditional songs from traditional singers rather than revival singers]
Does anyone go out and collect Fiddlers Green[written by a revival songwriter],from a singer who has processed it?
do collectors collect other modern composed songs ,just because a traditional singer has them in his repertoire?.
what I see here is double standards and boundaries that are ridiculous.