' have heard in a folk club someone announce that he will play so and so's version of whatever song but most of us have more imagination. Also you might hear a song announced as a (example only) Kate Rusby song when it was just a song she had sung, not written.'

You've really never heard rather posh young ladies having a go at The Recruited Collier with a gritty Sheffield accent....?

Of course we all copy people we respect when we start out. How else can we learn. When I was onstage many years back, the late Derek Brimstone was heard to remark, 'That bastard is doing my act...!'