If we're talking about Jim's work as a collector

We're all applauding that one, Brian - and I'm eternally grateful for the cassette he put my way a year or so back which has still to emerge from whatever box we packed it in when we moved. In respect of his diligence, passion, authority in respect of Traditional Singers & Songs over the years I will applaud him long & loud with much respect and admiration.

However...

It's no secret I'm still smarting from him dismissing my own efforts as a ballad singer as being truly awful and akin to bad pop music, which is a sour old approach and not helpful in the slightest. This is an attitude we find in many of his other posts which are cast in the direction of the wayward even as Satan smiting Job with sore boils, as in his dismissal of the inquiry which this thread is attempting to answer as prattish.