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01 Oct 20 - 11:24 AM (#4073875) Subject: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: voyager 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 |
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01 Oct 20 - 06:40 PM (#4073930) Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: reggie miles 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. |
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01 Oct 20 - 06:40 PM (#4073931) Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: reggie miles 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. |
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01 Oct 20 - 08:05 PM (#4073945) Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: rich-joy 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 |
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01 Oct 20 - 09:06 PM (#4073950) Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: sciencegeek 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 |
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02 Oct 20 - 04:15 AM (#4073985) Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: Roger the Skiffler Doing a lyric search for a song I later found I already had the lyrics for! RtS |
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02 Oct 20 - 01:21 PM (#4074074) Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: Joe Offer 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- |
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02 Oct 20 - 02:13 PM (#4074079) Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: Dave Hanson I like it too Joe. Dave H |
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02 Oct 20 - 03:05 PM (#4074088) Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: fat B****rd I was checking some Leadbelly info and here I still am. |
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02 Oct 20 - 03:13 PM (#4074091) Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: fat B****rd I just looked. It was a Terry and Mcghee query. 20 years ago on November 8th ! |
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03 Oct 20 - 03:28 AM (#4074107) Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: Helen 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. |
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03 Oct 20 - 03:35 AM (#4074108) Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: Sandra in Sydney my first post was in 2002, but I thnk i posted as a guest a few times before I joined |
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03 Oct 20 - 04:54 AM (#4074113) Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: JennieG 2000 for me......Bob Bolton told me about it. |
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03 Oct 20 - 05:15 AM (#4074117) Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: Richard Mellish 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. |
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03 Oct 20 - 01:19 PM (#4074177) Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: Rex 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. |
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03 Oct 20 - 02:49 PM (#4074182) Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: Monique Through Dian Montgomerie Elvin in June 2005. She wrote me "Do you know the Mudcat website? It is a group worth joining." Et voilà! |
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04 Oct 20 - 09:02 AM (#4074268) Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: Mooh I think my mother had discovered it while looking for something, and mentioned it to me. |
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10 Jul 21 - 08:49 PM (#4112912) Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: keberoxu pardon my asking, but what is aitch bee dee ? |
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10 Jul 21 - 09:50 PM (#4112920) Subject: RE: How I Met the Mudcat (hbd) From: Rapparee Looking for lyrics and was sucked into the void. |