having read the above post, i despair, jeremy taylor was instantly recognisable and had a distinct style of his own, I would not put him in the same class as MacColl, but his songs were unusual witty distinctive and well constructed as were the songs of Miles Wooton, but you could not confuse the two of them.
Jim Carroll reminds me of the wailing wall, it really is like talking to a person who has set ideas, who cannot acknowledge when people mention MacColls good points, in fact talking to Jim Carroll is reminscent of the main character in the film Shirley Valentine who ends up talking to the wall.
I can predict his response its a like a 78 record that is stuck, it will be grave dancing corpse kicking