what goes round comes round, as we stumble about with the genre the important thing is that the words and music are available, as for style , well surely those early recordings were the singers making do with the best voice they had and perhaps in their own dialect, took me years to be comfortable with my own voice and I do the best with what I have and try to improve on it, however it is essentially me and not in the style of Taylor, Carthy, Makem or Paxton and good as they may be I have no ambition to sound like any of them. I think though, where a style can be noticed is when a large group of people are singing and perhaps there is a discernible style which is worth reproducing, possibly best demonstrated by the Coppper family. Other than that I think all singers are unique in their own way.