"As to the whole tale about hearing the tune somewhere in the past, isn't it strange that either the original writer or interpreter has not come forward yet"

I've said this before, too: the first time I heard the song was in a session. Someone played it, and i said to my friend, "That's got to be a Seth Lakeman song."

I'm not musically sophisticated enough to describe how an artist develops signature musical styles, but I have listened both to Kitty Jay and Freedom Fields, and my initial feeling, without ever having heard the song before, was tha tthe tune had Seth written all over it.

I'm just saying.