"He was responsible for a obtaining and recording good deal of the material that Lomax later claimed credit for." Well maybe - but Alan Lomax crops up several times in that book of Hamish's writing - and there's never a trace of any antagonism towards him.

For example "In the autumn of 1959, Alan Lomax arrived from the United States...He approached me for help with the Scottish LP. I agreed to assist him in the North-East, and asked Sorley and Calum (MacLean) to do likewise in the Gaelic speaking west, pointing out that the tape recorder he had brought with him was streets ahead of any other portable recording machine I had so far encountered, and this seemed a golden opportunity to put on record a good number of the virtuoso tradition bearers...Lomax never forgot the co-operation he received from Calum on this occasion, and he recently sent me the following appreciation of their fruitful association..."

It seems clear that the crucial thing for Hamish would have been that the songs were collected and the singers given respect. Who got the credit for the collecting was very much a secondary matter. A really special man.