When I was about 15 at a friends house, his dad put on Leadbelly's Folkways recordings with the spoken bits chatting with Alan Lomax. Dancing With Tears In His Eyes about broke my heart. I was into Rockabilly and didn't know what hit me.

Then Lonnie Donegan souped it all up - amazing.

And then I got Freewheeling in a library sale coz it had a great cover and looked like old blues songs. What a record to give a teenager - Jeez.