"He calls folk singers morons...."
No I don't - that is reserved for people like you who make the incredibly insulting remarks abut real folksingers that you do.
There is really know need to share your medal with others - you are the one who hads earned it.
"The Durham Strike [tommy Armstrong] was recorded by MacColl on Second Shif"
You've just said that and I'm well aware of that fact
I repeat, the poetry of Tommy Armstrong was relatively unknown, certainly outside his native Durham, until the High Level Ranters recorded 'The Songs of Tommy Armstrong'.
It was quite possible that he was well known befor MacColl was the twinkle in anybody's eye. but not to the national public
26 of his songs were published loacally during his lifetime, but it is belived the bulk of his songs were lost altogether
One poem doesn't make a well-known swallow!
Jim Carroll