"He wrote some good stuff. But his daughter was a better performer until her untimely death."

An opinion which I can't share. His daughter, Kirsty, was no doubt very talented, but, as far as I was concerned she was an 80s pop singer whose talent was very much rooted in the youthful fashions and fads of that decade; her father's talent had a timeless quality and comparisons between the two are meaningless.

As far as I am concerned people who see Ewan as 'just' a song writer are missing the point; he was a remarkable interpreter of traditional song and it was his immersion in, and profound understanding of, traditional song which made him such a powerful song writer - his roots were very, very much deeper.