Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters

Subject: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Fortunato
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 09:06 AM

Please accept my sincere thanks to all you mudcatters for your music and fellowship this year. You make a difference in my life, and a good one. You have brought me new songs, new friends and old songs and friends back again.

You have made my world larger and yet more intimate.

Gratefully,

Chance Shiver

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: KathWestra
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 12:38 PM

Thanks, Chance, for reminding me of another blessing to be thankful for. The Mudcat community--and the wonderful larger folk-music community that has enfolded me so warmly for so many years--have made a big difference in my life too. Happy Thanksgiving, one and all. Wishing everyone love, health and friendship and the continued gifts of community. Kathy

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 01:16 PM

Two names I don't even recognise....

But what a breath of fresh air...

:-)

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Carly
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 01:43 PM

Thank you, Chance, for your music and your friendship over the years. And thank you for helping me to remember and be grateful for all the love, support, and good times that have been a part of my life because of Mudcat, and the traditional music community.

As with Chance, all of you who have touched my life have given me measureless gifts of many kinds; gifts of music, laughter, friendship, love, and support, and set examples for me of kindness, generosity, committment, and hope. Thank you all.

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: the fence
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 02:00 PM

happy thanksgiving to all across the water

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 03:11 PM

Amen to that...and just about everybody's across the water from me!

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Micca
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 05:15 PM

And to you and Suzette also Chance, I am Humbled and made more by Knowing you both and deeply appreciative of your and all my American friends who took me in and to interesting places and in general took care of an itinerant UKer who was "like a Stranger in a Strange land" and to Special Thanks and Thanksgiving greetings to Tinker, SINSULL, Janie, Dani, jacqui and Kendall, Ebby, KT, Charmion, CET, Carly,(append guest list from Getaway here) and to Mudcat in general, and the FSGW without whom , maybe I wouldnt have met so many interesting and wonderful people Many Thanks to you all, I lift a glass of my best Single Malt to you..

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Francy
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 06:21 PM

Thanks to all for being here......Frank of Toledo

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 06:47 PM

Thank you and Susette, Chance: You are fine folks indeed. Just got home from a wonderful Thanksgiving with Ruth's side of our family, and tomorrow my son, his wife and out two grand kids will be here visiting from Florida.

Does life get any better?

Jerry

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 06:54 PM

Don't know where we'd be without Mudcat and the friends we've made here. You've said it well, one and all, and we are full of gratitude. If we have a Major Triune with all Auspicious Aspects aligned with Prosperity in all ways and the god of our Hearts, may we get a chance to meet many more of you at next year's Getaway!:-)

Thank yew, Mudcatters,

Kat & Rog

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: C-flat
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 07:51 PM

"music and fellowship "


If I was asked to describe what "Mudcat" is about I would be hard pressed to provide a more succint definition.

Chance, I share your feelings of intimacy towards this site and it is a credit to the "regulars" and the general spirit in which this site is maintained, that so many of us "lesser-lights" make our daily visits to read, laugh, learn and, on occassion, contribute.

Thanks for your contribution.

C-flat.

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 08:16 PM

Beautiful sentiment Chance and I can do no better than to return the same to you. Thansk so much for your friendship these past years, as well as that of so many others here.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 09:07 PM

Chance, I wish I knew you. This place keeps me sane and connected. I am truly thankful for the community.

Jerry and Ruth, I love you two. Be sure to give our best to Gideon and Mary -- and Aaron when you talk to him.

Kat and Roger, I'm truly enjoying those 2 CDs. The Mac McClintock songs are priceless. That's the most complete version of Jesse James I've ever heard. How the heck did he get it all on one side of a 78? Be sure to check out the James homestead (Jesse, Frank and their parents) in the photos I sent your way last week. One photo was the way the old place looked when I first found it. Rhe other photo is after the restoration. It looks like a typical suburban home. And the window left of the door is where the Pinkertons threw a bomb that tore off the boy's mother's arm. No wonder they became insurgents??

And a Happy Thanksgiving to you all!!!

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: chordstrangler
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 09:21 PM

Hi Art...Greetings from Chordstrangler and the wild west of Ireland.   Believe it or not, the original homeplace of the Jesse family is only a few miles from my present location in Listowel in County Kerry,   They were wild before they left here....they were obviously even worse when they re-located.    If you should require more information I would be delighted to provide it...regards....M

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 12:03 AM

Thanks, Art! I had no idea that was such a complete version of Jesse James...sure glad he DID get it all on one side of a 78! And, the photos are incredible...they really struck me when I first saw them. So important that you have the "before" picture!

I LOVE the MUdcat and the Connections made here!

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Mudlark
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 12:56 AM

What Chance said. And thanks, Chance, for saying it so well.

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Fortunato
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 09:17 AM

Likewise, Art. An opportunity may yet present itself. Until and if, I will continue to read with great interest your posts here, I am one who feels connected to you as well.

cheers,
chance

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Gypsy
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 10:20 PM

Thanks all. I truly appreciate my longdistance friends/advisors

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 02:12 AM

And a Happy Thanksgiving and holiday season to Max and his family, too, without whom...

As Fortunato said, for the music and the fellowship many thanks. I've learned a lot and had a lot of fun here the last few years.

Lin

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: GUEST,greg stephens
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 02:32 AM

all good wishes to you, Chance. You turned out to greet me and Kate on our first faltering steps into West Virginia, and alas we haven't had the chance to show you any English hospitality yet...but that will come! And good wishes to all who use Mudcat to increase the sum of human happiness.

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 03:34 AM

Wonderful people, the Mudcatters. Thank you all, and I'll be back in the chat soon...

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Peter T.
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 07:29 AM

The best. yours, Petr T.

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 10:10 AM

Chance,
Many thanks to you for starting this thread and to you and Suzette for being so generous in everything you do. And to Micca and katlaughing and...and...and... but mostly to Max who made my current life possible.
SINS

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 10:18 AM

And for the hospitality of Mudcatters, toward travelers and at Mudcat Gatherings!

THANKS!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Bob Hitchcock
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 10:43 AM

Hey Chance, I don't check in here very often but when I do it's nice to see posts from people I have known for a long time, like you. How long has it been? Could it be 25 years?

Anyway good luck to you and Susette and all the other Mudcatters out there.

Bob.

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: KT
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 02:46 PM

Aw....Chance, here you are!! No more than ten minutes ago, I was on the phone with Ebbie, and I asked her " Where's Chance been?" And here you are!!

Thanks for starting this thread and for expressing so well what so many of us feel. This is indeed a wonderful place, and I'm so very grateful for all of the fine folks I've met here. To those I've met in person, I look forward to next time. And there's a long list of unmet Mudcat friends I hope to have the honor of meeting soon.

Now who knows about that paltalk thing? Maybe we should plan a session a few days in advance and get together there.......

KT

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 03:31 PM

Well Clinton it just proves that there was life here before you and I and others came along. I suspect that a lot of these good people sit and laugh at us relative newcomers, just like parents watch their offspring make the same mistakes as they did. It's no good telling them, best to just let them get on with it, they'll learn. Mudcat has certainly taught me a thing or two, and the day anyone says they've nothing left to learn is the day they should quit Mudcat.
All I can say is thanks again from Scotland, and love to all you far flung Catters out there who fill my computer hours with fun. To those I've met, and to those I hope to meet, God bless you all.
Giok

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Fortunato
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 04:47 PM

Bob, As I am now 29, it was indeed 25 years ago that we met; and I was 4 years old at the time and you were .5, approximately, of course.

KT, I've PMd you, but it's good to see your words, cold enough for you up there in Fairbanks?

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 07:05 PM

Ah, you were cute little boys at 5 & 6..I remember you well...29 is a good age! I liked it so well, I have done it twice, and working on a 3rd try....I have known some of the nice people on this thread longer than there has been a Mudcat, but others, from Micca and Ebbie and KT onward to Jerry R. and many I have only met online, make me feel like I have known them forever. Pretty good group, I'd say.....

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Peace
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 07:12 PM

I have met lots of good people here, and I feel fortunate to have done so. Thank you all.

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Dani
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 07:14 PM

Thanks, Chance, for reminding me of one more great big giant blessing in my life. Sunshine in the seams and cracks of life! Mudcat is one way I keep my sanity in this recently-tough life. I took it for granted when things were eas(ier), and like so many other things I've learned as I grow up, we must truly be mindful of what is good, and nurture it so that it'll keep being there. Both for us, and for others.

Thank you all for what you give here. 'Greater' or 'lesser', all are lights. Ever notice that no matter how tall, fat, skinny, short, lovely, ugly a candle is, it's got pretty much the same light as all others once the flame is lit? You've got to put more of them together in groups if you want more light.

Gratefully,

Dani

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: kendall
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 07:20 PM

Chance, I wish I'd said that.To all you others, I couldn't have said it better. I wish you all a better year than the one just passing.

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Joybell
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 07:44 PM

Yes thank you Chance from me too.
So much love and friendship. So many wonderful visits across cyberspace. Such interesting discussions and the chance to put in my own helpful, happy, sad or silly bits. Surprise deliveries in the mail box of things like CDs, a little stuffed penguin, a big box of Peanut Butter Cups, Sparky's wonderful "Cow Songs". The fun of Secret Santa Time. Comments in messages like "I always enjoy your posts". I'm so very grateful. Thank you all so much.
                                           Cheery-bye, Joy

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 11:57 PM

THanks for a great thread . I have had so many wonderful interactions with great and wonderous people due to MAx and the old Mudcat . It dose feel like there are some generations of conversation here but all inspired by getting together and making music and the joys aroud friendship .
          The fun I have been able to have from meeting Amos and playing music Meeting Bseed and making music both in California , Bill Sables and the yorkshire crew !!!! and so many people in my own backyard in Connecticut I never would have foulnd without the conversations and friendship here .NOMAD !!! I had the greatest time with Banjo Bonnie looking for the perfect banjo for her all over the northeast .. Bert at Bartrams Garden in Philli .. Oakley at Nellies in Beverly . The list just floors me and it all comes from the good will Max has built into this vehicle of friendship   !!!    As I always say at the end of any posting I put here "All the best " and thats what I have gotten out of my time coming and going here for all these years .
                Thanks Chance for a great thread. Pat Kat and Art its great to see you all still in the middle of all this !!   . I miss seeing Rick's wonderful posts but am so glad we had him .This seems like the right place to say this.. I would love to see and hear more of Barry Finn and Bseed and the like of that kind of voice here . We were blessed to have the music conversations we had here and i hope everyone gose back and reads some of the great threads that live on . Lots more to come and I look forward to inspired music threads like the one Oakley is having at the moment on his new CD with Cara. Thanks to all here. !!!

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 12:12 AM

i'm new here and consider it a
privilage to have finally found an internet home
for the music

i've loved
for nearly 30 years..

..errr and i'm still a young fit bloke..

snd keep myself clean

... unless any nurses under 25
want to give me a NHS bedbath..

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 02:09 AM

errrr.. i've brushed my teeth
washed my face..
and sobered up a bit..
& realised i've probably been quite boorish
on this board and others..
and appologise..

sorry..


[except for one american gobshite
who i dont feel a need to say sorry to..]

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 06:16 AM

I've been reading this thread and wondering what to say- I guess I don't have to be original, but just add my profound and heartfelt thanks for the true community that happens here. You've been my lifeline at times, friends.

Thanks Chance for starting this. This thread is showing what Mudcat is, at its core.

Blessings,

Allison

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Fortunato
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 08:40 AM

You are all most welcome; yet, you are the thread my friends all.

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Azizi
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 01:39 PM

Another newbie here to say thanks to all for the welcome and for the exchange of information, thoughts and feelings. It's wonderful to be a part of such a widespread community of music lovers.

Best wishes for the holidays and the new year!

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Tinker
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 05:29 PM

Just made it home after hours in the car and found this wonderful thread. The connections and explorations, the friends and the music--the community here is an increasing part of my life.

In Love and Thanksgiving

Tinker

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 08:46 PM

And I certainly meant no real offense to folks I came on strong to during our recent political doings here in the U.S. --- even the guy who I wanted to kick in the _ _ _ _ _.

Art

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Col K
Date: 29 Nov 04 - 04:58 PM

And a heartfelt thanks from me as well.
The Mudcat family is a great one and I have made many new friends here.
Thanks to you all and seasons greetings to you all.
Colin

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: MoorleyMan
Date: 29 Nov 04 - 05:02 PM

Col K, you said it all - couldn't have put it better.
Seasons' greetings to one an' all, and let's keep it goin'!
M

Subject: RE: Thanks for the music/fellowship, Catters
From: Fortunato
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 10:41 AM

And thanks, Mudcat for my friendship with Rick Fielding.