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Thread #113925   Message #2428549
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
02-Sep-08 - 07:41 AM
Thread Name: lyric book - trad songs of Northumberland
Subject: RE: lyric book - trad songs of Northumberland
Sorry, Nutty - but I fear Mr Crawhall would be turning in his grave.

Saying that, I am hardly above appropriating Crawhall's images for use on the Word Wide Web - for example the page I did to accompany the Shibboleth album Hyem, features a good many of Crawhall's woodcuts, variously textured & coloured as digital images to accompany the texts of the (mostly) traditional songs thereupon. See Here. Other images too of course; various chapbook cuts & photographs of the old collieries of South-East Northumberland dear to the hearts of the musicians, but also, hopefully, respectful to the source.

As for accessibility; I feel such things ought to be hard won to have a value, and by their rarity they are all the more precious. In that sense £42 is a veritable bargain. I wouldn't be averse to an on-line facsimile however, feeling sure such a thing must exist somewhere...