Jim Carroll

I no longer know that there is a large enough interest in the material we have recorded to warrant the time necessary in getting it into shape.

What can I do to persuade you that there is?

Those few who are interested in this are, and have been for over 20 years, perfectly free to access this in the various public archives it is deposited in.

Not good enough, Jim. From this article http://www.folkmusic.net/htmfiles/inart558.htm -

"Jim and Pat were both listening to jazz and blues at the time but, when they heard Ewan MacColl singing industrial ballads about British working people's lives and emotions they were completely bowled over."

MacColl didn't just sit back and say "It's there in the museums if anyone wants it." You didn't seek it out until someone showed it to you. Surely you have a duty to pass on the flame.

What are you going to do with your declining years apart from go on internet threads and rant about the deckline of UK folk clubs because someone said that someone once sang The Great Pretender in something that chose to call itself a folk club in defiance of the 1954 definition? You know it's true; you read it on Mudcat.

It has nothing whatever to do with the '1954 definition' as you, once again so misleadingly - well - mislead.

Then what is it to do with? What is stopping you passing on the heritage that has been left in your trust?