"Are you suggesting that Ewan and Peggy did not receive and financial recompense for their Saturday evening performances at The Ballads & Blues Club? "
No I am not - I am suggesting that there were few people around who were making a living out of it.
Both the B and B and The Singers paid their residents - ot much, in th case of the Singers Club - barely covered expenses.
"I find Ewan's idea of rescuing a large number of young people quite amusing"
I'm sure you do - you were a friend of, Malcolm Nixon, weren't you.
There is little doubt that the music was being sucked into the commercial market and sanitised for wiide public consumption.
My first club was one such, I was a member for a year and, so anodyne had it become, was on my way out when was taken under the wing of people like Terry Whelan and Harry Boardman - been around since.
The Singer never wavered from presenting traditional song, well sung and new songs using traditional forms.
Kept me from hanging around street corners for most of my life and earned my eternal gratitude.
Jim Carroll