Greg, what rubbish.

Mary O'Hara spent the "cold winter" of 1962 in a convent in England, which she entered in April of that year. She stayed there for 12 unbroken years. She had totally given up singing at that point.

Besides, even if Dylan had learned something from her, which I doubt, and certainly not in winter '62, what would have been wrong with that? Mary had to learn the traditional songs from someone,in her case notably Séan Óg O'Tuama. I have Mary's email address but I wouldn't waste her time by raising such a silly question with her.

I'm quite surprised to see Martin Carthy on the tribute show as he too has criticised Dylan for "stealing" the tune of "Nottamun Town" from him. (In fact it seems more likely that he got it from Jean Ritchie, who according to Dylan's biograpger Howard Sounes,got a payment of $10,000 for her "arrangement" of the tune).

I'm most looking forward most to seeing a clip from "Madhouse on Castle Street", which I thought had been wiped decades ago.