Sam Lee's collecting can be heard on this website
http://songcollectorscollective.co.uk/. Lots of evidence there of what he had achieved. So he has his own take on folk music and his role in it? Well, we all have that. I agree with Vic - if his BBC interview gets people talking about the music and wanting to know more, then good.

BTW, I am in discussion with the British Library Sound Archive to get my recordings put on line, including a lot of gypsy material. There's a heap of admin to get through but it should happen in 2016. Also this year, the "Single Gloucester" project will be putting a lot of material on line, including, again, songs collected from Gloucestershire gypsies. Watch out for announcements in the folk media.

Tradsinger