Doc Watson - now you're talking. My early 'folk voice' was probably a combination of Doc Watson and Mike Waterson. I suspect that it sounded horrendous although I was asked to perform at a lot of folk clubs at the time. I remember once when Alex Campbell walked into a club in London while I was singing 'Robin Hood and the Fifteen Foresters' followed by, I think, 'Little Stream of Whiskey'. Afterwards he came up and said, "I liked the Robin Hood song but the American one was shite." Praise indeed!