This stuff is of course worth talking about, though when he's not even cold is maybe not the time I'd have chosen to deal with it.Anybody interested in folk music will have studied Alan Lomax's writng and work, will have been a bit disturbed by some of the slightly odd tone of some of his comments about black people,will have been upset about some of the royalty stories etc etc.So? he came from a world which was his world. He tried to get beyond it and succeeded. he did fantastic things, and the fact is we'd not be sitting here talking the way we are it wasn't for him and his like. So Leadbelly was a murderer. Woody Guthrie was personally a complete shit. Alan Lomax did this and did that. OK. But we are the richer for what they did. I salute them.For the wonderful things.
I'll cheer the whingeing GUESTS and people of their ilk when they do something wonderful too.