"this is just to clarify the "damage caused" reproach of this dear (but a little too aggressive in my opinion) Mr Caroll.(sic Carroll)"
Sorry - it clarifies nothing
As far as I'm concerned, adding accompaniment is little more than poor taste and ill manners.
Using the recordings of others without permission is both unethical and illegal.
Using the recorded voice of a tradition singer without permission undermines thirty to forty years of work and could have, and still may have put us in bad standing with the family members of those singers, who are now our neighbours and whose good will we rely on in order to make future use of the songs we collected.
No effort has been made to contact either us, nor the singers families to obtain permission - it would have been a relatively simple matter to seek such permission - none of us use pseudonyms and e-mail addresses are easily obtainable!
As I said, I was prepared to pass this of as naivety, now it appears to have been a case of predatory dishonesty.
Jim Carroll