"Well, its as fair an apology for revival conceits as any I've read"
I'm quoting, but that aside for the moment. Where does your own singing fit in with all this?
From what I've heard of it, it is as far from a redition by any traditional singer as I have ever heard (you right to choose, of course), so once again you are accusing somebody of doing something that you apparently have no hesitation of doing yourself - as with your edict of not being able to alter texts, on a previous thread.
MacColl, and others of the revival you have snided at in the past, at least followed the logic of the tradition by staying faithful to its narrative function; totally absent from your own approach.
One more a case of one rule for you, another for the rest of the world.
Jim Carroll