the only person i heard sing stormy weather was Bob Roberts who recorded it on an lp, IT HAD THE ORFORD NESS VERSE.
BOB ROBERTS SAILED A BARGE so of course there was a reference to a barge, i heard it back in the seventies long before john howson had moved to suffolk and started collecting,if john howson said that he was incorrect.
the bargeman such as bob roberts sailed up the east angliancoast as far as the humber. in the 1960s and 70s when bob roberts was singing,john howson was in liverpol singing in a duo with barbara banyon?