Albert Lancaster Lloyd came to Australia in his youth during the 1920s and worked on rural properties in NSW. He learned a number of traditional bush ballads while there and, in later life as a journalist, broadcaster and folksinger, recorded and published various versions of these and other songs.
Lloyd was an autodidact whose major work is Folk Song in England (1975), together with a number of well-regarded anthologies of traditional English-language song and other folk expressions, particularly those from industrial contexts. He also collected folk music and dance in Eastern Europe, about which he also wrote a good deal.
In 1970 he made a lecture and concert tour of some Australian states.
The A L Lloyd Collection is at Goldsmith’s College, Dulwich, University of London
https://web.archive.org/web/20061113222007/http://libweb.gold.ac.uk/collections/speccoll.php#llo. It includes his Australian papers and correspondence, etc.
Lloyd was a leading figure of the folk revival in Britain and there are many obituaries, appreciations and commentaries available online.
His Wikipedia entry has a bibliography and discography, as well as some useful links.
Other useful items include:
a recorded interview with Mark Gregory, 1970, available at NLA https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1570779. Transcript at http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/lloyd.htm
Several articles in the Canadian Journal for Traditional Music in 1997 and 1999/2000
https://cjtm.icaap.org/content/27/27_gregory.html
His biography, Bert: the Life and Times of A. L. Lloyd (2012) was written by Dave Arthur.
His contributions to Australian folklore and his versions of songs have often been controversial, see Graham Seal ‘A L Lloyd in Australia: Some Conclusions’, Folk Music Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2006).
