Jack, have you heard Bert Lloyd singing The Captain's Apprentice? The power and starkness of the song is really suited to Lloyd's voice, I think. It's a song that's rarely been covered in the revival, and Jim Moray decided to do it for the RVW day at Cecil SHarp House last year - it has since entered into his regular repertoire, and he makes a great job of it.

I don't know how likely you are to find similar Albanian music while you're there, but I hope you are successful. On a related tangent, Dessislava Stefanova of the London Bulgarian Choir sang with Frankie Armstrong at the Bert Lloyd day at Cecil Sharp House last year. She described hearing his record of Bulgarian folk music when she was young, and how well and accurately they delved into her musical tradition - and how surprised she was to learn that a foreigner had made such a brilliant, representative collection. Which is quite a tribute.