I have always thought traditional music and song was an area well worth studying and am now in a position, having done a degree as a mature student, and made a concentrated study of ballads, where I can count accademics as friends. Neither arrogant nor outsiders but having an interest and a love of a subject and immense knowledge to share.

I am sure that in their time Hamish Henderson and Kenneth Goldstein (to name only two) were very well regarded by the travellers that they talked to and came to regard as friends.