Martin, I have been a member of Mudcat for at least six years and I have to say that American folk music has always been well represented. You didn't specify; what are you interested in, ballads, old-timey, blues, ragtime, folk-boom, folk-rock, singer-songwriter? Let me know and I will point you to the threads. It's just a fact that, for obvious reasons, there is more English folk music than American. English folk music is probably the largest single influence on American folk. You can't talk about American folk music very long without referencing the British Isles. By the late nineteenth century the influences were going both ways. Mudcat is, I'm sure, the largest single repository of information on the folk music of England, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, and America, because they cannot be separated. If you want to talk about American folk music, start a thread. I guarantee you will get discussion of American music. Earl
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