==Jeannie Robertson took a lot longer than some singers would for any given ballad, by singing very slowly.==

I have to confess that for this reason I never admired her as a singer [nor her highly regarded English equivalent Phoebe Smith either], finding her approach affectedly mannered. I suspect that at some stage she had been 'got at' by that Hamish Henderson, London-born professional Scotsman, who was the officious sort of collector, to my mind, who could never leave well alone; and could never stand criticism or argument either, but would literally resort to shouts and threats and blows — I saw it more than once. But I expect I shall be shot down in flames for saying so.