can you say the same for all the names fawned upon in your book?

I may be getting this wrong, Al, but the only book that I can see mentioned here is the Roud book that I mentioned. If it is the one that you are referring to then you are pretty wide of the mark. Steve Roud is writing about the songs, their origins, how they entered the tradition, how the process of the oral tradition seems to have worked and the central importance of the printed versions. The individual singers are hardly mentioned at all and the very few that are are not "fawned upon".
Apologies if I have misinterpreted your reference.