The extent to which Ewan can be considered a source singer, or anyhow a true tradition carrier [lot of his songs learned from parents Will & Betsy Miller] has been considered on these threads before. Just to remark here that Bob Thomson, who knew so much about the oral/broadsehet ballad tradition that he was the first person ever taken on by Cambridge for a PhD course without any earlier degree or academic qualification, said to me more than once that he never believed that Ewan had got the tune for Eppie Morrie [the only one in Bronson] from his father, but had probably made it himself. A fine tune nevertheless, which I have sung often just becoz...