Hi Tim, thanks for the information on Tam Kearney, that must have been before I knew Billy.
Tam Harvey was guitar player and sometimes sang in the duo simply known as "Billy and Tam". They later became the "Humblebums", before being joined by Gerry Rafferty.
What a great time that was for folk music, enthusiastic audiences comprising of people of all ages and a huge array of "characters", poets singers and a few solo musicians, but song fuelled the movement. I remember folks like Hamish Imlach, Alex Campbell, Matt, Danny Kyle, Josh McRae even American and Canadian performers ...Mark Ellington?......and not to forget a wee poet called Freddy Anderson from County Monaghan, of whom it was said, "Freddy didn't make it out of the gutter, never even achieving the dizzy heights of abject poverty"
It was of course intended as a compliment....Ake.