Sometime in 2002 a Mudcatter who now calls himself Q visited my website www.cocojams.com. Q then emailed me about the commentary I had written about one of the songs that was featured on that site, 'Jim Along Josie'. Q & I exchanged several emails about that song & about other African American secular slave songs. He also encouraged me to visit a folk music site called Mudcat.

Well I had started my website with the technical assistance of a friend and was very unsure of myself when it came to traveling to new places on the Internet. I can't remember if Q left a clicky or not, but I eventually found my way to Mudcat. When I got here I hadn't a clue what I was seeing so I left. But for some reason, I kept this URL.

Within another year, I had got hooked on blogging by first getting up my nerve and eventually actively posting on the wesley clark blog. When that blog was deactivated, I found myself politically disallusioned. I also found that I was addicted to blogging but without a cyberspace home.

Somehow I remembered Mudcat, and revisited this site in Sept.2004. As a result of my experiences with the wesleyclark blog, I felt more confident about posting. I lurked here for about a month, jumped into a thread in Oct 2004, and started my first thread about a month later.
Often I run into Q on the threads I post on.

I want to publicly thank you Q for alerting me to this wonderful resource. Not only have I learned a lot about folk music & different cultures within cultures, but I have also met such interesting people!