Chanteyranger I think it was the reaction of a real chanteyman who objected to non-seafarers "putting on the agony" (to borrow a phrase from Pete Seeger) Hugill's voice, of course, had lost its edge when he started recording so I always assumed some "sour grapes" in view of Bert & Ewan's stronger & more vibrant vocal chords! In the other direction, Bert often scoffed at Stan's lack of "scholarship" in Stan's magnum opus (Shanties of the Seven Seas) Not in a nasty way but, again, you can see how clashes occur BTW Bert once reviewed Dominic's "Posterity be Damned" with the headline "Nothing to declare" And even Ewan & Bert often quarrelled eg on the source of FourLoom Weaver. Here again you feel it was Bert's superior knowledge versus the less-informed "folk" I loved them all stan kelly
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