Some of the best music threads I've seen here over a couple of years have also been the shortest. Sometimes there are a fair number of posts but they often end up with only three or four people in discussion. Recent ones on Blind Lemon and Piedmont blues have been great, and I especially like discussions about the roots of someone like Dylan or Doc Watson. Some of the black gospel threads have also presented lots of interesting information, but I'm curious, how many folks actually OWN recordings of the early country, Gospel, blues or folk artists, and listened to them before coming on Mudcat. Through suggestions from Mudcat I've gotten to love the Delmore Brothers, Uncle Dave Macon, and most recently Frank Hutchison and Fiddlin' John Carson from that great site with the old 78s.

marty