Well, I don't really like modern 'folk' at all and would normally avoid singer/songwriters if possible BUT there is a young woman who has been to a couple of the folk clubs I go to and her songs are very memorable.

Her name is Virginia Barrett and her song 'Under Your Golden Shade' won't leave me alone! Also the song 'Little Warm' is one I find myself singing constantly. There's another one too whose title I don't know but it has a very good chorus (she printed out the words of the chorus for us to join in with at the gig she did at Tilston folk club) and that one has a twist at the end that had us all smiling! Really good tune and amusing lyrics.

Her songs, in my opinion, actually have some musical worth which is far more than I can say for any other singer/songwriter's material that I have heard. OK, I may not have heard all that many but, of those I have, some are big names and their songs still bore me!