Peter Kennedy died almost a exactly a year ago. There is another obituary on line. He was a controversial figure but I do not know a lot about him other than this.
If anyone wants to know why you shouldn't make decisions about what to collect from singers but take everything here is a true story.
A collector was recording from a singer who kept on wanting to sing "Granny's Armchair". The collector turned it down week after week and recorded some terrific songs from him.
Eventually the singer was "allowed" to sing "Granny's Armchair". Of course it turned out not to be the music hall song "Granny's only left to me the old armchair...." as the collector had thought - but a particular Child Ballad and it was the only time that ballad had been recorded from the oral tradition!!
So record everything. You never know what gems will appear.
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