Richard - Agree with you on the Unthanks.

HAve a listen to Roy Baileys version - not sure which LP but reissued in 92 on compilation CD

Dead straight - most compelling. Made me go and look it up the first time I heard it and that was in the proto-web years. Fantastic history lesson - "God bless you sir at least you tried".

Write and ask him ... shy bairns get nowt