Delighted to b reminded of McCarthy's article - the antithesis of everything Harker stood for
Not only does he give a balanced view of Motherwell's work, warts and all, but he puts Harker's contradictions in context
On the one hand, Dave the destroyer attempts to undermine Motherwell with the old usual out-of-context sniping - "idealist", subsequent to yhe nobs... et al, but he blasts his own legs from under himself with his own summing up the people he had spent an enire book attempting to destroy:

"Their contribution was crucial. Without their collecting, and irrespective of their mediations and their motives we would not have had hundreds of songs recorded and published for posterity."
(McCarthy quoting Harker)

All the collectors were 'guilty' of that, though you wouldn't have guessed it reading 'Fakesong'