"That's part of the the point I was trying to make with the Robbie Williams analogy, Keith. You can't really get perspective on the influence or significance of a song, album or artist until it's been around for a wee while and has had time to find its context, as it were".

Agreed!

Seth Lakeman is actually Robbie Williams minus the tattoos, both in looks and also in vocal range. Strangely Robbie has demonstrated an ability to write in a rather wider range styles, but that might just be his choice of collaborators. I do however think the evidence so far is that Seth has considerably more sense!