Ewan MacColls ideas about only singing songs from your own culture to quote Martin Carthy " helped me to discover English folksong " Ewans legacy to folk music is immeasurable.

I've never read Colin Irwins books but his journalism left a lot to be desired, he often repeated the erroneous fact that Ewan MacColl was born in Auchterarder, when everyone else in the world knew he was born in Salford.

Lizzie, do a search, it's all been discussed over and over before.

eric