Re Vic Smith's comment:

'peter kwennedy not collecting bob blake because he learned songs from 'books'
'Kennedy (I presume you mean him) never met Bob Blake. You probably mean Mike Yates.'

Reading the above you would think that I never recorded Bob Blake 'because he learned songs from books'. This is incorrect. I recorded Bob's singing, but it was only after his death that I learnt that he had got some of his songs from books. I have also said, on a number of occasions that I was surprised to discover a copy of Lucy Broadwood's 'English County Songs' in Fred Jordan's house. But this did not stop me from recording songs from Fred.