"To each her own. I would rather listen to fake Scottish accents than listen to songs where the locales have been changed..Way down upon the Volga River? Banks and braes of old Lake Michigan? it's a long way to Sacramento? Nah...mg"

If you listen to folk music, you ALREADY listen to hundreds of songs in which the locales have been changed. The only difference is, you never knew the originals, because they have been altered and tweaked thousands of times over the centuries in their migrations from places like Ireland, England, Scotland, Germany, Italy and from Jewish traditions. And then again as they traversed the USA.

Folk process.