I'm sure that he can (and probably would prefer) to speak for himself, 'Sminky' but I hope that you realise that Jim Carroll is a distinguished authority on, and collector of, folk songs. I'm sure that he didn't decide what is or isn't a folk song on the basis of some airy-fairy notion that he dreamed up in the bath and then demanded that everyone else endorse.

I, on the other hand, am not particularly distinguished in any field - but I do recognise that the "folk is a process not a type" idea makes a lot of sense - certainly a lot more sense than the 'folk songs are indistinguishable from past and future pop songs' notion. Supporters of the latter notion rather remind me of enthusiasts for the paranormal who scream "closed minds!" when scientists quite reasonably point out that there is very little, if any, evidence for such phenomena.

Mind you I'm not sure why I bothered writing this as you're going to ignore it anyway ("Keep the definitions coming though - I for one enjoy ignoring them"). You appear to have a closed mind by your own admission.