"Ewen"
Ewan MacColl - get it right.
Ewan learned many of his songs from his parents before he changed his name - hence Jimmy Miller.
He first came to public notice singing "ancient ballads and songs in English and Scots Gallic" to cinema queues in the depression.
There is, as far as I am concerned no question on "integrity and authenticity" other than in the minds of those who would make it so.
I knew MacColl's mother as a singer and I had described to me his father William as having hundreds of "queer old songs and pieces" by contemporaries, notably, Eddie and Ruth Frow, founders and curators of the Salford Working Class History Centre.
Jim Carroll