I'd consider it an honour to be insulted by a man of Jim Carroll's calibre and reputation.
Though, as in this instance, he may sometimes display traits
of paranoid bilious pomposity and be too quick to react over-defensively
to perceived slights in what he imagines other posters might mean by their writing.

Jim, we are actually on the same side and mostly in agreement
on this issue.

My personal taste in trad folk music stems from my life long enjoyment
of early music / medieval forms of rhythm, drone, and rasping abrasive
instrumental timbres that informed classic recordings by late 60's early 70's folk rock artists..

I however, as a punkfolkrocker would substitute a fuzz box or minimoog
for the likes of the hurdy gurdy or psaltery
in any personal attempt to pay honest respect to my cherished influences.

My hastily scribbled generalization
[based on a quarter of a century of my own experience
of the petty favouritisms and spites of vainglorious local community
music scene 'entrepreneurs']
was actually aimed at the kind of local pub club that wastes my time and money advertising 'Folk Night'
and then presenting a dismal evening of nothing but insipid rich twats with guitars
that cost nearly the same amount as a good 2nd hand family car
relentlessly crucifing the easier to play chord 'favourites;
from the Beatles songbook.

We all can always strive to better express ourselves with clarity
and precision, but buggered if I can be arsed to try to pre-empt
every possible way my chosen 'mudcat nom de persona' can be misconstrued
by any over-sensitive folk constantly on the look out to pick a row with anyone about anything as often as they feel like it....