Jim,
Maybe I was beeing too harsh on Lloyd, I never got to know him and he's no longer there to speak for himself.
It is unfair of me to criticize him for things that happened long ago and where there's simply no way for me to know the truth since I haven't been there.

I tend to forget that the priorities when it came to folk song collecting have changed quite a bit since the earlier times.
I still lament the fact that most collectors never bothered to ask their informants what their songs meant to them, why they liked them and so on.

The human side is too often ignored and songs are treated separate from their singers, when in truth they are very personal things.