Scots: Archie Fisher, Karine Polwart, David Ferrard
Northeast and Yorkshire: Ed Pickford, Keith Marsden, Graeme Miles, Roger Davies, Ewen Carruthers
Scots transplanted to Yorkshire: Ewan McLennan, Wendy Arrowsmith
Travellers: even if you think you want singer-songwriters, it is worth exploring the great richness of traveller singers singing unaccompanied songs--mainly traditional songs, but not entirely. The cross-over feature for a person with singer-songwriter taste is the expressiveness of each word, phrase: Lizzie Higgins, Sheila Stewart, Tommy McCarthy (site: the tin folk), Stanley Robertson...