at no time was i referring to mike yates i had read his article about bob blake and was aware that he had collected from bob. i have[ in 1987] recorded a song from the repertopire of bob blake and was well aware he was not tradtional singer, however he was a very good singer.
the point i was making was that i judge singers on their singing abilty not their label clearly mike yates does too.
i do not believe peter kennedy did. and that was based on the fact that somewhere i read that kennedy had made a comment that blake was not all that he appeared to be.
i was aware of bob blake long before mike yates published his article in musical tradtions,
i learned songs from his repertoire back in the 80s and i have recordings to prove it.