My recollection of Alex is as a charismatic performer with a nevertheless questionable technique. I remember once asking rhetorically, reviewing one of his albums in Folk Review, something to the effect of "how can he hold an audience so expertly and effortlessly when he can't hold a melody line?". I recall Peter Bellamy laughing heartily and approvingly. Alex himself, tho I am sure he was aware of this notice of mine, greeted me with perfectly cordial affability when we met a few weeks later at Cambridge FF.

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