GSS, obviously Richard Hawley credits Hughie Jones as the songwriter of Ellan Vannin on his False Lights From the Land e.p. where he featured this song along with a version of Shallow Brown. All the necessary clearances and so on will have been sorted out prior to release via MCPS, and to suggest otherwise is just silly. And I know it's not a traditional song! I just used it as a recent example of a song that's become part of the folk 'canon' being reinterpreted in a different style...

I could equally have pointed towards Nick Cave singing the Lichtboy's Lassie. Or Shelagh McDonald's wonderfully funky Dowie Dens of Yarrow.