it is about time this crap about source singers and revival singers not being comparable is forgotten.
we are taking about music and vocal quality, when judging singing in any other genre nobody is concerned with how the song was learned, but the quality.
its the same sort of crap as [peter kwennedy not collecting bob blake because he learned songs from books,
jesus christ trad singers learned songs from broadsides.
vics argument is an affectation of the uk folk revival. tradtional singers and musicians both learned aurally and from manuscript just the same as revival singers.