Fleet Foxes, eh? Nice one. Never heard them before so nice to have a wee YouTube crawl to put some sounds (& nice images) to the name. Suggest others might do likewise?

The worst of Mudcat is the crawling deference to an especially elite & dictatorial ownership, and the secret policing that goes on by way of moderation. Like many here I'm prepared to put up with that for the general crack, though the hearty friendliness is a bit of a put-on - I've seen great stuff here vanish without a trace through what might at first appear to be a conspiracy of silence, but is, in truth, down to a total lack of interest in anything that falls outside a very narrow band of interest. So less a community than an on-line club that knows its own mind and refuses to think outside of its particular box - hence the missionary zeal of some of the responses so far on this thread, and a few of those the links...

Actually you only need one link, and this is it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=073OtNCUEJo. Over 50 years on and nothing has changed bar the audience sizes, the general demographic, the waistlines & styles. Most of them jumped ship years ago, whilst others clung doggedly on and evolved into Folkies. In all that time empires have come and gone, great singers have been born and died, entire musical movements have yeilded endless classics, bands have formed, changed the world and split up, we've had Mersey Beat, psychedelia, prog, punk, neo-punk, acid house, Madchester, the Hacienda, drum & bass, old school hip hop and grunge; Folk has reinvented and revived itself a dozen times at least with even my hip young neighbours playing Bellowhead in the watches of the night but in folk clubs the world over they'll still be singing Whip Jamboree as if the last 50 years haven't happened at all. That is the essence of Folk, and of Mudcat; it is ageing, unchanging, reactionary, righteous, curmudgeonly, and yet weirdly appealing all the same. Say The Spinners here and no one will think of Working My Way Back To You...

Never seen any fighting here though - a few heated exchanges maybe, as passions can & do run high, which is to be expected, but never anything by way of gratuitous verbal violence. Thing is, unlike other forums, Mudcatters are very traceable in the real world & our paths do tend to cross from time to time, by chance or design, which is always nice. After all, you never know who you're talking to...

S O'P / Sedayne