What John Bowdwen just said but louder
"ps how do you know pseudo is a woman?"
Because she was here before posting with a name and telling us that Clare farmers learned their songs from blues records
She had he membership withdrawn eventually

"As I remember A.L Lloyd used to reckon that traditional WEREN'T singing off key"
Bert and others (I think Lomax too) had a theory that some singers deliberately sang off pitch - the Cantrometrics team called it 'unright singing'
This didn't apply to Walter - he did what some of the most seasoned singers did when singing unaccompanied - they rose in pich during the course of a song
Frank Hart did it, Harry Boardman did it, I do it - lots of singers do it
It would be surprising if a singer with no experience in singing such as Walter didn't do it
Making an issue of it, as has been done here is a way of somene who has made a seriesd of boo-boos from getting out of the hole she has dug herself into
Not so long ago she said she wasn't talking about Walter's singing beu about one of his songs
A nasty case of short term memory, I think
Jim