Nick Dow said "As a singer Collector and Broadcaster for the last 40 years I could write a long diatribe on what I think is wrong, however much more is right and there are some touches of pure excellence."

Something that may or may not be wrong is that Sam says some of the same things that the collectors of a hundred-odd years ago were saying. The songs go back many centuries. The people who are singing them now are old and when they've died there will be no-one left. The old songs are being swamped by modern mass culture.

Still, Sam is collecting and recruiting other collectors, and they are still finding singers and songs, so power to their elbows.