Letter: Lou Killen's version of The Wild Rover was the only one I could stand

I ran a university folk club in the late 60s and early 70s and booked Lou Killen whenever I could. He had a fine tenor voice that undermined many of the prejudices people had about traditional folk and an ear for just the right material and accompaniment. He was one of the most sensitive and affecting interpretive singers I've heard. His version of The Wild Rover (a song that is usually thrashed to death unmercifully), for example, with its slowed down pace and air of nostalgic regret, was the only one I could stand. His first solo album, Ballads and Broadsides, remains one of the jewels of the postwar folk revival.