Sure... a few observations... there were, once in my like a few songs that were my holy grail... songs I heard over the past many decades, that I could not find a word or two or the words to... all of which, I have found here. One, I had been writing to a prof at the University of Liverpool, a folklorist who put a grad student on the question as it haunted him as well, and sure enough, the answer turnd up on Mudcat. Where else could you find in the course of a few hours, the difinition of a middle jimp. In fact, in many ways Mudcat is getting more successful at creating a community of music as the triumph of the CD proves... Gargoyle! Do try and get the set, you will see the golden top edge of the clowds... the clowds. Yes, things are sometimes darker. The US has declared a war which it's leaders have said we will not see the end of... projecting seventy five years of world war. These are even darker times than when we set out together. When Ashcroft says generations to follow will sing ballads about the war we are setting out upon, well, at mudcat we are singing songs with hopes that there are other ways.... this is the people's media, folk music. and so yes, I would and will stay.
Larry