Well, I've never shyed away from this topic so why start now?

What I liked with Mudcat when I first came here was this wonderful mix of ideas. As folk musicans, we are *charged* with translating our observations of our times into verse and song. Yeah, I thought, "What a grand site!". People chatting politics, events, stories, folklore, songs, tabs, lyrics: all the things that I think make a folk musican.

Now we have become compartmentalized (female term for men when they try to distance themselves from what ever we are trying to distance ourselves from...)and next thing ya' know we'll have 15 different categories all meeetin' in different rooms.

How sad for folk music.

Hey, lots of folks may think its the new Catters that have added to the BS threads but it isn't. It's the times in which we live. And as folk musicans, unless we want to marginalize ourselves, we need to be paying close attention.

That's my take on the subject.

I liked the mix and I think the "seperate but equal" philosophy is counter-productive to producing folk music.

Bobert