No, I wouldn't call Gordon a shantyman either. It's more that he's pretty well known, and I've had a tape of his around for years that has him singing "Where am I to go." Think it probably came out in the 70's, and I was guessing that he'd popularized it, especially locally. It's certainly been my experience that when I find and fall in love with some REALLY obscure song, and all of a sudden EVERYONE knows it, it's been because Gordon Bok got ahold of it and put it on an album or CD. And I live on the west coast.
Wasn't meaning to impune Wood's Tea Company's collecting ability. Maybe he learned it from them.
Blessings,
Barbara