an interEsting interview,
Thankyou for puting it up here
not sure i agree with a number of things he said, i believe for some songs, accompaniment can enhance a song immensely.,and if used well can provide an atmosphere that gives the song something extra, of course the words are most important, but in my experience a good accompaniment can or should draw attention to the words
his comments about left wing political songs are what i might expect from someone from his family background, we are all influenced to some extent by our upbringing.
I am not sure the statistics he quote are correct, and if they are correct, might be because very few english songs were collected from industrial areas, for example sharp and baring gould and many others had an agenda of collecting rural songs, if more industrial songs had been collected there might be a very different overall picture.
I think Peter was an asset To the UK FOLK REVIVAL.