Let's get this straight: MLC cites a Chris Wood vocal as Martin Carthy doing something with a WOW factor (i.e. she apparently approves of it). This wouldn't be an indication that she is at last beginning to grasp what actually occurs among musicians? That MC inspired CW (as borne out in the album Wood Wilson Carthy and that he in turn mentored the young Jim Moray (Sweet England and the common factor is Lord Bateman? No, of course not. This ballad is far too long and of such varied supranational provenance, influence and impact to have impinged on her consciousness.