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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Magpie Date: 27 Oct 99 - 01:47 PM I've been around for a bit more than two months, but what the heck! My name is Christine, and I live in Oslo, Norway. By profession I'm a teacher (English and arts&crafts/ woodwork). I'm 34 years old, I've never managed to get married, but I did manage to produce a son, who's eight. I play and sing Irish folk/rock in a band(where I also found myself a gem of a boyfriend), and I do more trad stuff at sessions at "my" pub, The Dubliner Folk Pub here in Oslo. I've always been interested in music, according to my mother, all it took was to put me on my rocking horse, and I'd sing all the Christmas carols in the book. At the tender age of six, I watched a Dubliners show on TV, and was hooked for life. I now have to live with another addiction, namely the Mudcat. I curse you all every morning, when I have to get up, after having spent half the night on the'Cat. I love it here, and I've learned so much!! Thank you! Magpie |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Corwyn Date: 27 Oct 99 - 02:01 PM Ok, Hello everyone. Everyone calls me Corwyn. I'm 27, origionally from New Jersey, now living in Kansas. I'm a first tenor, opera trained, but my love is Celtic music. Primarily Scottish, with the rest coming in at a close second. I have one albumn out already, (which I'm sure none of you have heard of) teamed up with a gentleman who plays the Celtic Harp (4'), and I'm working on my second, while trying to find people to play with. I've done Faire circuts and the SCA and even the rare paying gig. I'm single, never been married, with no kids. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Corwyn Date: 27 Oct 99 - 02:06 PM Answer to Micca: "a cappella" means literally :for the chapel. It was meant to denote liturgical music, which was done without intrumental accompanment. It has come to mean "without intrumental backup" or "voice only". Hope that helps. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Fortunato Date: 27 Oct 99 - 02:07 PM I've just arrived. Thanks, MudCat Cafe for being. Thanks to Max et al for making it so. Greetings to you all. I'll borrow a line from Ian Tyson's "These Friends of Mine": "I'm a better man for knowing all of you". Virtual hugs and/or handshakes for all. (Take your pick) I'll be around. Know me by what I contribute. Fortunato |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: MMario Date: 27 Oct 99 - 02:16 PM Corwyn - What's the album? you'd be surprised what 'Catters know, and about whom....*evil laugh* Has it been more then two months? I feel like I JUST discovered this place, and at the same time I feel like I've been here forever....according to the search thingy I've been posting since Septemble of '98 -- but that's when I registered. I'd lurked for a while before, I think. I guess that's more then two months.... "a cappella" singing is what those of us who don't play instruments are forced to do unless you can find a partner. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Corwyn Date: 27 Oct 99 - 02:46 PM MMario - The Albumn name is "Down From the Highlands" under the group name Da' Albannaich (Strachiele ann Ailichean). Heard of it? Here, here on your definition of "a cappella" |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Joan Date: 27 Oct 99 - 03:19 PM Right. This is a neat site which I've visited in the past just to check out song lyrics--had no idea people were talking to each other! Then come to find there are people talking that I know, plus a bunch of interesting ones that I don't, yet! I'm mainly traditionally oriented (American native and naturalized songs), but write the occasional song. Had a couple of albums on Folk-Leg and have a CD of one of them, but do less performing for money and more singing for fun nowadays. Having said that, I have had a couple of tours in Scotland and England recently which takes care of plane fare and visits to good pals across the water. Will be on staff at Pinewoods Camp Folk Music Week. Pleased to know you're here--keep talking! j |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Durham Lad Date: 27 Oct 99 - 03:40 PM Late as ever! My name is John Milburn and live in the English Lake District. Originally from Durham and still proud of my roots. I'm 46 and played in "PRO" bands in the seventies. I'm starting again after a lay off of about fifteen years and putting songs together to play for at my local clubs for fun. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Nancy-Jean Date: 27 Oct 99 - 03:41 PM I've been here a little over two months. I grew up in Vermont. My family sang all the time--folk to oratorio--and had great singing parties. And so, "I cannot keep from singing." I have a degree in French, know an irregular verb or two and collect chansons folkoriques. I am a "recovering soprano". By day, I "office work" in the nation's capital; by night I take notes for a book-in-progress about ballad collector, Helen Hartness Flanders. That's all the mud that's fit to print, from Nancy-Jean |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Caindawg Date: 27 Oct 99 - 04:08 PM OK I guess I'm under 2 months and I'm finally feeling confident in how this whole thing works. I stumbled upon it while searching for lyrics, Blind Willie Johnson I believe. Caindawg is my Bluesman alter-ego stage personality, Rick to my wife. I have been playing acoustic country blues for 30 yrs or so, own PA, many guitars,perform regulary. 47, 2 kids and living on N Vancouver Island. Prof purchasing supvr with large forestry Co. about to be swallowed up by even larger US forestry Co. (Shades of Star Wars!) Big time back country snowboarder and I come here everyday at lunch time. An' I can't stop ;-> CD
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Caindawg Date: 27 Oct 99 - 04:09 PM OK I guess I'm under 2 months and I'm finally feeling confident in how this whole thing works. I stumbled upon it while searching for lyrics, Blind Willie Johnson I believe. Caindawg is my Bluesman alter-ego stage personality, Rick to my wife. I have been playing acoustic country blues for 30 yrs or so, own PA, many guitars,perform regulary. 47, 2 kids and living on N Vancouver Island. Prof purchasing supvr with large forestry Co. about to be swallowed up by even larger US forestry Co. (Shades of Star Wars!) Big time back country snowboarder and I come here everyday at lunch time. An' I can't stop ;-> CD
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Alice Date: 27 Oct 99 - 04:28 PM Wow. So many new names - welcome aboard. There is so much that has been discussed and shared on the Mudcat in the last few years, that it would be overwhelming to try to go back through our previous introductions. Here is a link to some memorable threads Why We Sing and Where is Spancil Hill (no need to add to them). By the way, I recently ordered and received Robbie McMahon of Spancilhill's tape "The Black Sheep". It is absolutely delightful. He sings Spancilhill, as well as The Fleadh Down in Ennis, and the song he wrote about himself called "My House On The Hill". Great stuff. If you want a very good tape of Irish sean-nos (old style a cappella), then I highly recommend Robbie's tape. It has humor, warmth, and championship style, 19 songs in all. Alice Flynn in Montana |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: skarpi Date: 27 Oct 99 - 04:38 PM Hallo all new mudcatters, Welcome to this big FAMILY. All the best to you all . skarpi Iceland. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 27 Oct 99 - 04:39 PM Well, and there was I thinking all these people were veterans, and half of them are on this owning up session.
I've been using Digital Tradition for a couple of years, but only discovered the rest of it a couple of weeks ago, when my eye flashed on something saying "Mudcat under threat" and I thought I'd investigate. Noiw I'm hooked, I can't see myself getting detached. (Fortunately now now have an Internet connection with a free phone number) The first time I sang in public was on an Aldermaston march against the bomb. After a few year singing and playing a lot I took a long long break, just listening. Then in 1992 I got back into it pretty heavily. Now its several sessions most weeks, and I've written about 200 songs. And I have a website with information about what is happening in my corner of the world and nearby, and with a good few songs. Come and visit
So thanks for the welcome, those of you who've been here before, and who have made this such a good place to come.Since being here I've written two new Mudcat related songs (The Blue Clicky Thing and the Mudcat came Back - they are both somewhere on my website), and it was months since I'd written anything new.
And as for the other newcomers, get your photos into Barbara's rogues gallery.
Happy Halloween. Kevin
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 27 Oct 99 - 04:49 PM No, that link to my site was wrong. Here goes again:Welcome (Just in case that goes wrong again,the URL is http://www.bigfoot,com/~kevin.mcgrath.I might be able to write songs about blue clicky things, but I can't control them too well.) Kevin |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Bert Date: 27 Oct 99 - 04:57 PM That should be .com McGrath. BTW, I love your Marmite song but you're right it won't travel. I'll take a look at the rest of them soon. Also, seeing as you're in the folk business in Essex, you don't happen to know a Morris Dancer named Peter Oakley who lives in South Ockendon, do you? |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 27 Oct 99 - 05:02 PM Did you spot the deliberate mistake. I stuck a comma where I should have stuck a full stop. Pernickety little monster isn't?
So what I should have put is this: Or in blue clickese that becomes Fingers crossed...(You can see why I've never been able to master a musical keyboard either?) Kevin |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Jon Freeman Date: 27 Oct 99 - 05:04 PM I'd just been over looking at Kevin's site having found it from the first link (with a little guesswork). As it looks as if the second link has doesn't look like it will work either try this: http://www.bigfoot.com/~kevin.mcgrath Jon
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 27 Oct 99 - 05:23 PM I don't think I do Bert, but you can bnever tell with Morris dancers - particularly the ones who paint themselves funny colours.
But I could probably trace him through the Morris network, if he dances locally.
To add to my previous posting, I think what is special about the Mudcat is that the folk stuff and the hippy stuff balance out and keep the whole thing balanced and funny and comfortable.
Is this thread drift creeping in? Is talking about Mudcat and what it is we like about it a justifiable drift from talking about who we are?
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 27 Oct 99 - 05:23 PM I don't think I do Bert, but you can bnever tell with Morris dancers - particularly the ones who paint themselves funny colours.
But I could probably trace him through the Morris network, if he dances locally.
To add to my previous posting, I think what is special about the Mudcat is that the folk stuff and the hippy stuff balance out and keep the whole thing balanced and funny and comfortable.
Is this thread drift creeping in? Is talking about Mudcat and what it is we like about it a justifiable drift from talking about who we are?
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Judy Cook Date: 27 Oct 99 - 05:36 PM Hi. I'm new here, too. I live in Maryland, nourished regularly by the wonderful folks of the F.S.G.W. I love singing unaccompanied, and hearing others sing. Singing parties & song swaps are my idea of a really good time. I sing mostly traditional American & British songs and ballads (many of which I learn from books), though I do slip in more contemporary ones. I have sung all my life, but about a year and a half ago I started touring and find that I love it! Since 6/98 I've done three in midwest US and two to UK. My next UK tour is May/June 2000. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: bbc Date: 27 Oct 99 - 05:38 PM Well, McGrath was referring to me, I guess. Hi, my name is Barbara or bbc on Mudcat. I have appointed myself as a kind of unofficial housemother to the group. My son & I maintain a free, voluntary (unadvertised) resources site for Mudcat folks. It currently contains an email list, birthday list (both by month & by Mudcat name), photo pages, & profile pages (mini web pages). If you haven't toddled by already (as some of you have), please drop by to see who we are & send me the information so that I can add you to our merry group. To get to the site, go to Quick Links at the top right of the Mudcat Discussion Forum page & select "bbc's Mudcat Resources" or click here. I'm glad to meet all of you & look forward to seeing what you have to say. best, bbc (Barbara in NY) |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: bbc Date: 27 Oct 99 - 05:54 PM Sorry, folks. Usually, I get my "click here's" right. Let's try that one more time.now click here Embarrassing. bbc P.S.--Hi, Judy! Welcome! :) |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Art Thieme Date: 27 Oct 99 - 06:15 PM Wow, friends-----hearing about all you grand folks is like having the doc tell me that I've had a rather large, beautiful, completely benign (except for great sounds emanating from same) thingie lurking/residing in my chest cavity in close proximity to my heart---and I never knew it was there. What a lovely surprise, and what a lovely thread. Welcome to you ALL. Joan, I do know you, don't I? (Sorry if I sprung that on you when you weren't ready.) ;-) Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: McKnees Date: 27 Oct 99 - 06:37 PM Hi Some of you will have gathered that I am Duckboots sister and Ricks dreaded sister in law, My real name is Linda and I am in law, I'm a "polis" as they say in Glasgow. That's where I live but I work in the court in Hamilton, that's where Duckboots and I come from. I love listening to lots of music, from classical, I've got tickets to see the Marriage of Figaro, to going to the local Box and Fiddle clubs dotted about Lanarkshire. My only attempts of anything musical is plonking away, in private on my casio keyboard. Definately not for public consumption. I love visiting the cafe . McKnees |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Mían Date: 27 Oct 99 - 07:10 PM Mían here, hullo. I found MudCat whilst looking for Irish language lyrics and had the fortune of meeting Phillipa and Áine and the rest of you fine, fine folk folks. I am a scribe and create calligraphed and illustrated thises and thats, primarily hand drawn. I futz around on computer but mostly for other scribely duties like word processing (the "don't quit yer day job" job). I love most forms of music and folk songs from all around the world - in particular sean nos. Love them medieval and renaissance themes. Been involved in theatre arts onstage and backstage but, except for piano concerts when young, have not performed musically. Have recently been interested in translating, calligraphing, memorizing and singing Irish language songs. I think the vile black stuff is one of the vital forces of life. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Clifton53 Date: 27 Oct 99 - 09:22 PM Is that the great dog they call Master McGrath???? |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: katlaughing Date: 27 Oct 99 - 10:03 PM WOW! Rick, great thread and great idea!! Welcome all! It is amazing to see so many newbies. It's just wonedful to see you all here! Don't be shy; there are so many levels of knowledge and abilities here and the best thing of all is nobody has a superiority complex about any of it. Also, don't be afraid to ask ANY question, either in a thread or to one of us through private message, which you can do from your Personal PAge. Whoo-Hoo! This is wunnerfull, wunnerfull! katlaughing |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Llanfair Date: 28 Oct 99 - 12:40 PM I'm delighted that so many newcomers are British, it means that next year;s get-togethers should be well attended. Ed, is that the real Manchester, or one of the American ones?., and Mel, you're not far away, which part of Cheshire? Hwyl, Bron. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Fortunato Date: 28 Oct 99 - 01:34 PM Now, Art, That "haven't we met somewhere before?" line is a mite moldy. But I know how you feel. Not only do I think I know folks here at the cafe, but I often have the experience of thinking: "That's just what I would have said if I'd been online then". So very familiar, "It's like deja vu all over again"(Yogi) |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Melbert Date: 28 Oct 99 - 02:04 PM For Llanfair - I'm in Great Sutton, near Ellesmere Port. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Melodeon Date: 28 Oct 99 - 05:09 PM it is time to make a confession. Melodeon is actually two people. The original is Roger, he is the musical one of the partnership. He is 54 and an engineer but music is his first love. He has been singing since he was eight years old and discovered folk in the early sixties. He plays melodeon(what else) in an English ceilidh band called Grand Union and has recently started singing again after a 19 year break. I am the non musical half. I am Viv, Roger's partner of 22 years, I am a nurse and I gave up smoking 28 days ago. We live in Gloucester now but I am originally from a place called Oswestry up in the Welsh borders near where Llanfair is now, Roger is from St Albans. From now on I will sign myself Viv in order to avoid confusion. Are there any other split personalities out there? Viv |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Joan Date: 28 Oct 99 - 05:20 PM Hello, Art...yep, we know each other. I used to be Joan Sprung when we met, which was a while back. Strangely, I still am! Nice to read your frequent wisdoms on these threads. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: lamarca Date: 28 Oct 99 - 05:56 PM Do I count as a newbie since I just came back recently? I'm a singer, rabid songbook collector and molecular biologist who lives and sings with my beloved Luddite husband (who thinks I spend entirely too much time on the computer) and our 18 year old Siamese cat, Val (yes, she sings, too - you don't want to hear it, though...). I like ballads about dysfunctional families and transvestites, depressing songs by Richard Thompson, operas about dysfunctional people and gods, and lots of other kinds of music. I have more hobbies than I have lifetimes to enjoy them in: music, natural history, ethnic cooking, reading fantasy and mystery novels, macro photography and flamingos. I live in the folk shtetl of Silver Spring, Maryland, participate in clan get-togethers of the East Coast Folk Mafia and work stage crew for folk festivals produced by the National Council for the Traditional Arts. Oh, and I think the people I've met and argued with on Mudcat are really the greatest bunch I've ever associated with in 40-odd years or so... |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Gorgeous Gary Date: 28 Oct 99 - 07:49 PM I'm in Rockville, MD and hang out with the rest of the FSGW folks here, who do their best to keep me behaving and out of musical trouble. Luckily, their efforts are not quite enough to keep me from mischief!! 8-) My main reputation is as a filker; I ply the SF conventions up and down the East Coast, plus a few other places. (For example, I'm headed to the Ohio Valley Filk Fest in Columbus this weekend). I'm working on a CD of my songs and was one of the guests at a convention out in California earlier this year. I have a bunch of my songs on my web site at http://www.erols.com/hyperion/electro.html. As I've already mentioned, I also hang around FSGW, usually at the Open Sings, Getaways, and the Washington Folk Fest. With a little help from the locals and the database I get more traditional by the month! I'm a structural engineer by profession, working for a small firm in Rockville. I received my professional license a little over a year ago. I had lots of fun meeting the Mudcatters at this year's Getaway, which is what finally dragged me out of deep lurkerhood. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Tom on Comfort Date: 28 Oct 99 - 09:30 PM Well hello, I've been attending this site for a while now, but this is a wonderful opportunity to introduce myself (Thanks, Rick--great idea for a thread). I'm Tom, I live in St. Louis (on Comfort Avenue, you might have guessed). I play guitar & autoharp, and penny-whistle & (for the past year or so) melodeon (for our local Morris dance group). Yes I've been sorta quiet--a lurker, or maybe just the wallflower type--but I must say I enjoy this site. I am soooooooooo glad you all are "out there," makes the world seem like a much friendlier place. Perhaps I'll be less wallflowerish & get in & dance more often. How about a waltz? Thank you, one & all. Tom |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 28 Oct 99 - 10:51 PM I've been posting for about three months, with a bit of lurking before that. I'd have been here sooner, but only got my first computer last Easter. (It was supposed to be for work...) -I'm glad to have the opportunity to introduce myself properly; like a lot of others, I felt a bit shy to begin with. I'm 45 (can pass for 38 in favourable light) single, Anglo-Scots, living in Sheffield (UK). I work as a freelance illustrator, mostly cartoon strips. My background includes linguistic, folklore and folklife studies, which is why I come over a bit academic sometimes. I play fiddle, mandolin and cittern, with various local bands...mostly in pubs. Together with a bunch of like-minded people, I'm helping to run the South Riding Folk Network; a local organisation dedicated to promoting the Folk Arts in this part of the world. Have a look at: folk-network.com if you're so inclined. That's my first attempt at a "blue clicky thing"; I do hope it works! What I like most about Mudcat is the sharing thing; you can come here and learn from others, and pass on what you know yourself. Knowledge is wasted unless it's shared. Oh, and do have a look at the "U.K. folk collection needs help" thread, if you haven't already; "Doc" Rowe is the SRFN's honourary vice-president, and a folklorist of comparable importance with Alan Lomax. His work really does deserve our support. Malcolm |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: DanielRiverwind Date: 29 Oct 99 - 02:05 AM I hang around here from time to time. I don't post much. Nothing to say I guess. I'm not a member. I saw the membership form and I'm not sure what the red asterisks mean, and I like to remain fairly anonymos. I've played folk music since I was 14. I've played various instruments, but guitar suits me fine. At one time I had a list of 2 or 3 hundred songs that I could play all the way from traditional folk to pop music, and classic music. I came from a long line of classic stringed intrument artists, so the only was I could get a guitar was if I trained in classic music, so I would pack up my guitar and find a place where I could play what I liked, but the training proved to be an asset when it came to breaking the monotony of a long song with what a lot of my friends referred to as a guitar break. You know...there have been a lot of really fine songs written in the last 30 years, but my favorites still stand. "The Whistlin'Gypsy", "Four Strong Winds", "Scarlett Ribbons", and my newest favorite, perhaps a little bit out of place, "The Rose". During the past ten years I've watched my guitars age, sitting idle in my study, and my voice grow a little hoarse from too many cigarettes, but once in a while I still pull my guitar out and play a couple of studies by Fernando Sor, and sing a couple of my favorite folksongs. To make up for what I have missed in the last few years, I come to this website and read some of the posts, and remember what it was like to hear laughter at something I said, or applause for a song or piece I did particularly well. So I would like to thank this bunch of like-minded artists who have reminded me that the art of folk music is not dead, and that there are still a few people left to pass on this legacy of story-telling and music on to the next generation. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Owlkat Date: 29 Oct 99 - 03:56 AM Hey There, Little Neophyte, In answer to your queries, yes, and yes. Sam and Andy's (or Salmonella's as some of the local yokels refer to it, myself included) is still there, but the original owner sold it. The food is not quite as good as it used to be, but the portions are still bigh enough that you can eat until you should really stop, for not a lot of dough. The Alpine Bakery is very much still there. Their bread is very very tasty, and their fruitcake won an international award on the internet earlier this year. Which is nice, I suppose, if you like fruitcake. I've always found fruitcake a bizzare concept, but then,I play bass, accordion, and banjo, so what do I know? It does get dark here, but when the sun shines, it really is bright outside. We have a street festival called The Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous in february to get folks back on their feet, and to beat back the effect of Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD. We also have the acclaimed Frostbite Music Festival, aaaaaand we have one of the toughest dog sled races in the world around the same time of year. The trail goes 1000 miles from Whithehorse to Fairbanks, which is fine if that's what you want to do with your life. I'm a kat person, anyway. To quote Fritz Weaver,"Of course, cats are smarter than dogs. Just try to get six cats to pull a sled through the snow." I dunno. I just thought up Owlkat out of the blue. Mostly because I'm a veteran insmomniac, and I think kats are the most highly evolved life form on the planet. Well, yes, they do reproduce in large enough numbers to rival the fecundity of homo sapiens, but anything with fur that soft, and blessed with the ability to purr can't be totally evil. Unless of course, you're a sparrow, a mouse, or a gold fish. That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it. Bed-time! (Yeah. Right.) Night all. Plant you now, dig you later. ;-) Mart. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: alison Date: 29 Oct 99 - 04:13 AM Welcome to everyone..... has anybody warned you yet how addictive this place is???? OOPS... looks like I'm too late....... I only dropped in to find an obscure lyric for a friend... and that was 3 years ago!!! slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Rana Date: 29 Oct 99 - 08:39 AM Welcome, one and all! This thread has been entertaining - it's been interesting seeing all the Toronto references, and wondering whether I can identify any of them from their log on names (Hi Davey, will be in England over the New Year and so will miss Fokal Point at the Mariposa at the Cloud night which I believe is happening on Jan 2 at the TRANZAC - see you at a Cloud concert sometime before then I'm sure). As people have said, it does become addictive - I check about 3 times a day. I've been on longer than 2 months - so I'll just refer people to bbc's profile page. See you on some other thread sometime. Rana |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Davey Date: 29 Oct 99 - 09:34 AM Too bad, Rana, we've got some new things planned (sure, we just heard about it ourselves this week *Grin* and Les Barker won't be a surprise guest this year)... I'm sure I'll see you sometime before then.. Have a good trip.. Any of you other 'Catters from Toronto, be sure to come out on Jan 2nd, and bring an instrument or two for the singaround... Shameless promotion, tsk. tsk.. Davey ... (:>) |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Melbert Date: 29 Oct 99 - 10:34 AM Hi, I've been posting for a few days now using the nickname "Mel" (In fact I posted earlier to this thread). I've just discovered that there's an existing 'catter who'se made occasional contributions using the same nickname. So to avoid confusion I've changed mine. If I've stepped on anyone's toes or put anyone's nose out of joint then I'm sorry. I just hope there's not already another Melbert....... I'm the one based in Cheshire UK |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Max Date: 29 Oct 99 - 01:08 PM All right, looks like we're finally getting some young ladies around here. Careful going into the tavern girls, gets kinda rough in there, but hang with kat and alison, they know how to handle these guys. So... are ya single? New blood and some young blood, I like it. That should keep this party goin. Welcome all to my humble little experiment gone MAD MAD MAD. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: bobby's girl Date: 29 Oct 99 - 05:25 PM Hi - I'm also fairly new. My name is Stella, known here as bobby's girl. I was introduced to the Mudcat by Graham Pirt at Whitby this year, and have scarcely missed a day since - whoever said this place is addictive is right. I'm from Portland in Dorset - the original one which all the others were named after. I am a morris dancer and I also play guitar. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: KathWestra Date: 29 Oct 99 - 05:57 PM Humble little experiment????? The Mudcat's the best thing to happen to me, and I reckon to a bunch more of us, in a long time!
I'm Kathy Westra, Kath to my friends (that's you guys!), and I live in Silver Spring, Md., about a block away from LaMarca, her husband, and her singing cat. (Trust her, you don't want to hear Val sing!)
I've been hanging around this place about three months now, egged on by Sandy Paton, Rick Fielding, and other addicts. In 1971, I discovered folk music when I met Sandy and Caroline in Grand Rapids, Michigan, my hometown. They rescued me from the Calvinists in 1974 (another long story), and since then I've lived on the east coast.
I sing and play guitar, mountain dulcimer, and cello. (Once in a long-ago life I was a cello major in school and played in a symphony orchestra. It wasn't nearly as fun as folk music.) I've played "folk" cello on recordings by Archie Fisher and Helen Schneyer, and done a nationally broadcast public radio show of holiday songs with my former husband, Joe Hickerson. I'm an unabashed romantic, partial to traditional lyric songs from England and Ireland. Musically, there's nothing I like more than a room vibrating with a chorus of voices in many-layered harmony. The song can be old or new, obscure or well-known. What's important is that there are people REALLY singing. I also love to dance (contras, English, and waltz -- more about that in another thread).
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 29 Oct 99 - 07:30 PM DanielRiverwind, The little red asterisks indicate the blocks that must be filled in to register as a member. The other blocks are optional. I understand your being wary. Keep hanging around and make that decision later. Roger in Baltimore |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Mississipi John Cleaner Date: 30 Oct 99 - 09:15 AM Good thing this box is little cause my life ain't much to tell. I see there are a lot of mudcat johns. Down the Mississippi they call me John. They don't call me much though - mostly just yell. So I rock and sing my made up blues: It's hard for a fat little old white guy to exploit the blues It's hard for a fat little old white guy to exploit the blues Singing all day don't buy you a half a pair of shoes But you mudcat women respect men who sing and clean toilets. I sing the blues and clean toilets so you can call me Mississipi John Cleaner. I may rock my chair on delta porches these days but you ain't raised much money for that old folk music manglers home yet, now have ya? I been in the industry. Back in 42, maybe the year that Bill Lowndes disappeared, walked off into the mountains with a flask of Slippery Shenandoah and never returned, well back then I was told by Mississouri Tarpaper Roll Thomas to 'get into the industry man, take a janitorial job, take anything, just get in man.' So I got me a job as janitor at Moon Studio. Moon started me off cleaning toilets - I had no janitorial senority ya know. I cleaned well. The bowls were so shinny you could eat out of em. Maybe I cleaned too well. No one signed me a recording contract and a lot of clubs wouldn't let me sing. Started having trouble with women back then. They were ok until I sang, then they grew cold and distant, very distant. I would find myself with only toilet bowls to sing to. Each day I would make up new blues songs, like Leadbelly's, and sing to my toilets about the women I lost: you never like the brush I use to brush you hair you never like the brush I use to brush you hair but the toilet she don't even care if the brush I use on her bowl has a bit of your brunette hair Sometimes a tear would splash into the bowl. But don't you be sad for me. I did ok. I had my art, my songs, my blues. You be surprised how wonderful a big old sparkling toilet can sound. Better than Carnegie Hall. Try those big ol toilet with seats built for comfort, not those tiny new ones. Sometimes the toilets sang back or at least hummed harmonies. They sounded so sweet that I would often throw my arms around their smooth white basins and give them big long hugs. And sometimes the toilet seats would tape me on the head to let me know they enjoyed my songs. Before long I was the best toilet bowl cleaner in the record industry. Has its rewards. Like the time I looked up Josephine Baker's dess until she took off all her clothes and ruined it. But you probably want to hear about folk music. Besides Josephine was getting old when she came back across the Atlantic for that tour. And I can't write everything in this one little web box. Paul Simon was just a kid when I first cleaned his antique toilet - a pudgy young songwriter with talent and energy and that other felow with Einstein's hair. Paul burst in while I was cleaning his tank - he couldn't hold it any longer. I told Paul, I said, 'Paul, leave the top off the tank, let the morning sun shine through the window on the red rubber ball that floats on the water in the tank. This toilet's a genuine work of art.' He beamed and said, 'Great idea. Thanks man.' As he left the room doing up his fly I started singing a new blues: Let the morning sun come shining on you red rubber ball. Let the morning sun come shining on you red rubber ball. After all it a great toilet Paul.' I didn't see Paul for many years after that. I cleaned lots of toilets in a lot of different studios. I cleaned toilets for some of the best voices in the music business. One day I was scrubbing away singing, 'What's my line, cleaning toilets,' when Van Morrison runs in holding himself. Those Irish guys know what to with a beer or what to do with cases of beer. The urinal I was working on was almost clean enough to relieve a star of Van's caliber. I kept singing, rushing to finish the job when he yells, 'Get out of the way, I got to piss man.' I was troubled but I kept singing as I moved aside. A moment later he let out a sigh of relief and asked me what tune I was singing. As I replied, 'Cleaning Toilets,' the receptionists pushed open the bathroom door. Van mistook her for a fan, a BB, or a brunette bimbo as we like to say in the recording industry, as opposed to a BB, one of those blond bimbos. Van yells at the receptionist, 'No autographs please! Can't you see I've got something in my hand and I can't write with it.' Well, the recptionist wasn't looking for him, she had Paul Simon on the phone, for me, after so many years. Paul was worried. The sun looked great on the rubber ball in his antique toilet but the light destroyed the rubber. Antique tiolets parts are hard to find. To calm him, I said in soft singing tones, 'Don't worry Paul. There's fifty way to fix your rubber.' I told him softy, 'Use a rubber band man. Try rubber cemment gent.' After a few more ideas like this, he calmed down, thanked me and hung up. Haven't heard from him lately. Wonder how he's doing with his music. I could tell you about a Bitish blue singer's toilet - it wasn't exactly Londonderry Air in there ya know. But enough of these toilet tales. If this box keeps expanding it's going to get stretch marks. So let me tell you an old folk remedy - when they start singing, shove nutmeg in your ears - whole nutmegs, unground. And, you with your pot after pot of mint tea, always dirtying toilet bowls, shame, shame, shame, shame of fools. But I can be adaptable too? You don't want none of this silent scowling stuff over the breakfast bacon. I can come right out and tell you, 'You fat ugly bitch. Why you don't wear the black underwear I bought you for Valentines? Your tits too big? Your ass too big? Do you need a slap on your big ass? Should I call Al Capone? He'll send you a Valentine.' Is that better, honey? Is that the song you wanted to hear babe? Drop me a line when you got the time. Rocking on the front porch but don't push me in the river again, Mississipi John Cleaner |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Little Neophyte Date: 30 Oct 99 - 11:23 AM Oy Davey, do I really have to bring my instrument to the January 2 event. Somehow I've got to get over being so nervous. When I have a lesson with Rick and I want him to hear something new I've made up, I get so scared that I can only play it if he leaves the room and listens from a distance where I can't see him. I think I need a therapist. Actually, what I need is to start a Thread about fears and anxiety playing music around others. Rana hopefully we will be meeting one of these day Max, I went to the bar once, it was an awful experience. If it wasn't for MMario and Catspaw I would have been crushed by the frisky dog, and left to die of hypothermia in the garden where they put me to nap. Little Neo |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Shimbo Darktree Date: 30 Oct 99 - 12:05 PM OK, I'll add my bit to the list. My name is Ian Clarke. My nick was taken from a book titled "Isle of the Dead" by Roger Zelazny - the sci-fi buffs will know it (probably). I am from Tasmania, Australia, and currently live in Brisbane Queensland (also Australia). My second job is as an accountant (that's the one that pays)> My first job is folk singer (with guitar), and that's the one that does NOT pay. I started singing folk in the mid 60's (hey, stop calculating my age!), stopped doing it publicly for around 25 years, and have started again. This happened because I was listening to a singer at a resort hotel where I'd gone on business, and he noticed I was watching his chords (settle down! I mean the ones he was playing, not wearing). He asked me if I would like to do a couple of numbers, as he believed it was the easiest way for him to earn his crust. So I did, and realised how much I missed the old folk clubs. Well, I have since found an old-style folk club, and we run each Wednesday night. Any visitors to Brisbane are welcome (no cover charge!) and more info can be sourced from (and I'm not going to get fancy here): http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/eltonjohn/168/folk.html Hope that comes up right! Shimbo |
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