"If we all had the short sighted view of Jim Carroll folk music would wither and die."

Oh poo! That's an utterly unfair statement.
Jim has a very egalitarian approach to folk song.
Collecting and disseminating material on traditional songs is kind of a key thing to ensuring folk music *doesn't* wither I'd say!
Plus he was one of about three people on this forum, advocating the public benifits of an online sound archive of field recordings.
In fact I think he's one of the few here that recognises (shocking as it may be!) that not everyone has a nice leather bound copy of Bronson handy, or the spare change for a shelf full of 'Voice of the People'.