Colin Irwin is not a particularly good folk music journalist, he's just the most well known, he merely repeats unfounded rumours, he is one of the people who continually perpetuates the myth that Ewan MacColl was born in Auchterarder, when most people know he was born in Salford.

And you can bet your life that he was on the ' panel ' of 150 ' experts ' who don't know the difference between traditional songs and recently written songs.

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