How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)

Subject: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: voyager
Date: 01 Oct 20 - 11:24 AM

The 1999 Getaway where the Folklore Society of Greater Washington (FSGW) met the Mudcat for a hell of a good time.FSGW / Mudcatters Group Photo (1999 FSGW Getaway)

hbd Mudcat, Max, Leadbelly and the like

voyager (performing at the virtual FSGW Getaway 2020 this weekend).
http://www.fsgw.org

Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: reggie miles
Date: 01 Oct 20 - 06:40 PM

I can't recall. Somewhere someone mentioned it, or I saw it as part of some flyer, back when I was taking my first few steps into the online world.

I felt functionally illiterate when I first got here. Writing replies to text chat topics was not an easy thing for me. But eventually, the reading and writing slowly helped me to gain a small amount of skill at each of those tasks. Now, more than a few would rather I write less, rather than more.

This blossoming of those skills also opened up my ability with songwriting. More than a few of my favorites are rather lengthy. So, my time here was an awakening, a transformational experience, one that allowed me to organize my thoughts and find my voice.

Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: reggie miles
Date: 01 Oct 20 - 06:40 PM

I can't recall. Somewhere someone mentioned it, or I saw it as part of some flyer, back when I was taking my first few steps into the online world.

I felt functionally illiterate when I first got here. Writing replies to text chat topics was not an easy thing for me. But eventually, the reading and writing slowly helped me to gain a small amount of skill at each of those tasks. Now, more than a few would rather I write less, rather than more.

This blossoming of those skills also opened up my ability with songwriting. More than a few of my favorites are rather lengthy. So, my time here was an awakening, a transformational experience, one that allowed me to organize my thoughts and find my voice.

Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: rich-joy
Date: 01 Oct 20 - 08:05 PM

It were Stewie!!!

He kept saying I'd like it, though I lurked for a good while before I had the courage to post - as a Guest - and then finally joined in the late 90s ....
Yep, great concept, was right up my alley. We've "lost" some gooduns along the way, but it's still valuable!

Cheers,
Rich-Joy,
Down Under

Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: sciencegeek
Date: 01 Oct 20 - 09:06 PM

I believe a mudcat thread popped up during a google search for something and I thought it would be ideal for trying to track down lyrics of lesser known works... I was especially impressed with folks like Malcom who was so knowledgeable and helpful...

and much later I found that I had more than a few friends that I knew from festivals that were also on mudcat, so the world got a little smaller   lol

Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 02 Oct 20 - 04:15 AM

Doing a lyric search for a song I later found I already had the lyrics for!
RtS

Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Oct 20 - 01:21 PM

I was a regular user of the Digital Tradition when it was on a Xerox Website, and then it disappeared. Somehow, I found out that it had moved to a website called deltablues.com - the Mudcat Cafe. Looks like I first posted 5 January 1997, 3 months after Mudcat opened. I've posted some 40524 messages since them.
I like it here.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 02 Oct 20 - 02:13 PM

I like it too Joe.

Dave H

Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 02 Oct 20 - 03:05 PM

I was checking some Leadbelly info and here I still am.

Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 02 Oct 20 - 03:13 PM

I just looked. It was a Terry and Mcghee query. 20 years ago on November 8th !

Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: Helen
Date: 03 Oct 20 - 03:28 AM

This was my first post although I had been lurking for a short time before that.

"Chorus: Let us go to the valley [changed in title to "banks"] by the ocean 27-May-97 - 10:35 AM" and 37 minutes later my question was answered.

Amazing! And I've been here ever since.

The song is The Dutchman by Michael Smith who passed away in August this year.

Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Oct 20 - 03:35 AM

my first post was in 2002, but I thnk i posted as a guest a few times before I joined

Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: JennieG
Date: 03 Oct 20 - 04:54 AM

2000 for me......Bob Bolton told me about it.

Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 03 Oct 20 - 05:15 AM

The list of my posts shows my first one in 2007, but I don't remember how long I had lurked before that, nor how I had first arrived here.

Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: Rex
Date: 03 Oct 20 - 01:19 PM

I found Digital Tradition. It was connected in some way to Xerox. At last I could look up words to the old songs. It was like a fountain. I would try to download them but it would always hang with the sketchy phone connection. But I could read the words and write it down. Good enough. Then it was a blues thing, was that you Max? Then it was Mudcat and I jumped in.

Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: Monique
Date: 03 Oct 20 - 02:49 PM

Through Dian Montgomerie Elvin in June 2005. She wrote me "Do you know the Mudcat website? It is a group worth joining." Et voilà!

Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: Mooh
Date: 04 Oct 20 - 09:02 AM

I think my mother had discovered it while looking for something, and mentioned it to me.

Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jul 21 - 08:49 PM

pardon my asking, but what is

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Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd)
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jul 21 - 09:50 PM

Looking for lyrics and was sucked into the void.