Great, GREAT thread.   Thanks for all the fascinating new info to digest.   Wish I was sat in front of all my music and other things collected over the years to contribute some nuggets of gold too ! Hopefully, some time soon.

One thing I CAN add from a dearly remembered workshop given at a Loughborough festival donkeys' years ago by Stan himself, is that unless carried away by going down side alleys of conversation (a frequent, delightful trait FYI) and using collected and shared Caribbean shanties to illustrate a point, he chose rarely to SING some of them himself BECAUSE he felt his Welsh lilt couldn't QUITE do them justice so he preferred to steer people to hear the sources for accuracy and rhythm.

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