"The old engineers adage might suit here - please do not put the mouth in motion until the brain is fully engaged"
so why was it that Walter never sang out? come on answer MrKnow all
until the people from the UK folk revival [that you are always putting down] persuaded him to.
Give us an answer Mr know all Jim Carroll.
Walter realised or was prsuaded by Roger Dixon[ FROM THE UK FOLK REVIVAL] that the people most interested were the likes of Peter Bellamy AND SINGERS from the uk folk revival

none of this alters the fact that Walter sang the songs that his audience from the UK FOLK REVIVAL wanted to hear.
my other point is that Jim Bainbridge and Bob Davenport are doing what many traveller singers of traditional songs do, mix them up with other songs of different classifications,they sing songs on the basis of whether they think it is a good song not its classification
Audiences that go to hear those performers, expect that., in the same way they expected something different from Walter Pardon[ namely his family songs]
My next point is that if Walter had walked in to a working mens club and sang his songs in England,very few would have been interested, so much for the assertion that this is the music of working class people in England, unfortunately the vast majority prefer something else.
The last point is that if it had not been for Peter Bellamy and Roger Dixon and people interested in Trad music from the UK Folk revival, these songs would have been lost.
you are always running the UK Folk revival down ABOUT TIME YOU GAVE CREDIT TO THE UK folk revivalists WHO SAVED HIS SONGS.
come on then Jim define traditional songs, if you cannot shut up