"Bruce Springsteen ....is the main reason .... folk music is nowadays still very much alive".
Good grief! Guest Stephen's missed out on a lot of fine stuff.
The reason I'm looking at Springsteen's threads at the moment is purely because of what he's perpetrating in the name of a style he clearly doesn't have a clue about. I've no opinion at all on any other aspect of his career.
I'm not annoyed because the covers don't sound like the originals - many good versions of these songs don't sound like the originals.
I'm annoyed because they aren't good versions - to my ears. How they sound like to yours is your business.
Ray