We get a number of people who drop in here at Mudcat only to advertise their recordings. Some Mudcatters politely encourage them, but most of us just ignore or insult the self-promoters.

To my mind, anybody who starts more than a couple of threads to promote his own CD, is most probably obnoxious. Trouble is, some people are overly sensitive about that, and they're reluctant to post anything about their own recordings.

So, anyhow, what's appropriate, and what's not?
What works, and what doesn't?

My impression is that most of us here are musicians. We may have varying levels of talent, but we expect other Mudcatters to treat us as colleagues, as fellow musicians - not as a market to advertise to. But if any of you shameless self-promoters want to send me a copy of your CD, I won't mind. If I like it, I might say something nice about it.

-Joe Offer-