From Virginia Tam's post"
"Singers age and die away, taking the traditional songs with them."

I have asked the following question on several threads and never received a satisfactory response:

When a source singer dies, taking his repertoire with him, does a revival singer or collector (an obvious repository or source of the old songs) then become a source singer?
And if not, why not?

It stands to (my) reason that the surviving source of the songs would be the 'source singer', n'est-ce pas?

Seamus