You are absolutely right McGrath. Mudcat isn't just about American folk music. The banner says "a magazine dedicated to blues and folk music."

Now, we all know that "folk" music is actually a trademark of the British folk. But I'm pretty sure the blues are still considered American. Doing a search with the keywords "American blues music" there are no hits for Mudcat in 10 pages.

In 10 pages of search results for "Blues Music" keyword search, you get only this result for Mudcat on p. 3:

Error Occurred While Processing Request. Error Diagnostic Information. WaitNamedPipe returned FALSE. Windows NT error number 121 occurred. Description: a magazine dedicated to blues and folk music; hosts Digital Tradition Folk Song Database Category: Arts > Music > Styles > Folk > Magazines and E-zines www.mudcat.org/ - 1k - 20 May 2002 - Cached - Similar pages

In a search using just the keywords "Folk Music" you get this on page 3 again:

... Help w/sound cards, PC recording, etc... 42, 12-Apr-02 - 03:12 AM. New Folk/Music club in Halesowen, 6, 12-Apr-02 - 03:01 AM. ... Description: A searchable collection of folk songs, many in English/Scots/Irish tradition; lyrics provided for... Category: Arts > Music > Styles > Folk > Resources www.mudcat.org/folksearch.html - 45k - Cached - Similar pages

[Doesn't sound like much American folk music would be found here according to the above description, which is perhaps why the site is perceived as British instead of American]

And then is followed by another error message:

Error Error Occurred While Processing Request. Error Diagnostic Information. WaitNamedPipe returned FALSE. Windows NT error number 121 occurred. Description: a magazine dedicated to blues and folk music; hosts Digital Tradition Folk Song Database Category: Arts > Music > Styles > Folk > Magazines and E-zines www.mudcat.org/ - 1k - 20 May 2002 - Cached - Similar pages

And this on page 10 under "Mudcat Discussion Forum":

... New Folk/Music club in Halesowen, 7, 12-Apr-02 - 04:24 PM. Eric Taylor/Guy Clark - underrated.... 4, 12-Apr-02 - 04:22 PM. ... www.deltablues.com/folksearch.html - 46k - Cached - Similar pages