My friend John Howson, who has died aged 72, was a folk musician and singer, but also a fieldworker, collecting songs and music in Suffolk and releasing much of the music on his own record label, Veteran.
As a teenager John attended a variety of folk clubs in Liverpool, including the Spinners club and the Green Moose, run by the playwright Willie Russell. He soon started singing and became a resident singer and co-founder of Liverpool Folk Club in the city centre’s Mitre pub.
