I like Nic Jones's Lord Bateman. Very plain, very steady paced, without the ornamentation and the extra beats he threw into a lot of his stuff, and it works.

I do like ballads that walk along - not that halting, psalm-like delivery Anne Briggs did a lot. Someone who gets it right, to my mind, is John Kelly; his Valiant Sailor is superb (broadside ballad but I think it qualifies).

Guilty pleasure: Dave and Toni Arthur's Cruel Mother.