Friends, let's not add to the confusion. It's not all that complicated. Wally got an order in to Harvey before I did, and that led Harvey to believe that Wally would be the one to carry it, and he so indicated that to Max. The fact that I had not yet placed an order for Frank's CD was my fault, not Wally's. Let's forget the event altogether.

I buy stuff from Wally. He carries, year 'round, stuff that I order from the various labels only to offer at our Folk-Legacy booths during the summer festival season. At NEFFA last year, I got from Wally the two wonderful Yazoo CDs of the Music of Kentucky, the first volume of which has three songs by Alfred Karnes, a great traditional artist. I remember drawing Rick Fielding's attention to Karnes "Call to the Foreign Field" and being delighted to find that Rick admired the performance as much as I did. If I had the capital could expand my web site to include all of the labels Wally handles, I would do it and be justifiably proud of the inclusions.

I don't produce enough new releases every year to make the kind of regular "What's New" announcements that Wally is able to post. I don't want you to interpret what I object to as "blatant commercialization" as an objection to the quite simple descriptions of what's new at Camsco that Wally has been posting. We all get unsolicited hustles via our e-mail addresses. I get several every day (Want to make a gazillion bucks a month forwarding spam to our unlimited lists?, etc.) We can delete them quite easily, and I do. If someone doesn't want to read Wally's "Waht's New" columns, they are not required to do so. I do read them. In fact, right now Caroline wants to get a Carthy/Waterson CD from Wally that has an English hymn that seems to be related to the "I Bid You Goodnight" from the Bahamas that we all love. We'll need Wally's knowledge to lead us to the right one.

Let's keep the Mudcat Forum free of posters, gimmicks, ads and other examples "blatant commercialism." Let's let our community ban billboards, if we all choose to do so. Let's talk among ourselves as friends and neighbors with a common interest. We're here because we all love folk music, regardless of our various definitions of the term. As Rodney King put it: "Can't we all get along?"

Sandy