Wow!! Are you in for a good time. Don't rush things. Remember the Tortoise and the Hare--Slow and steady Wins The Race. "The Race" here being a lifetime of enjoyment and wisdom gained from the songs, tunes, people, activities pursued to know and share the music. (Seventeen? Drinking beer? I'm shocked, do you hear--shocked to learn that there's gambling--um, er,--beer drinking going on among students listening to music!!! Remember to always have a designated watch-for-the-cops member of your growing group.)

There are folks at the Mudcat Cafe from AAAALLLLLL OOOOOVVVVEEERRRR the known universe and a few places besides. 99.9999999etc.% of them are warm, friendly, helpful, good to each other in many ways. You have just plunked yourself down in a batch of folks who will go out of their way to make your life better and richer in many ways--a life full of best friends. You'll even get to meet some of them face to face from time to time. Pull up a chair. Have a cup of hot tea and tell us what songs you know (or want to know--but don't go with the clicky on that Bastard King of England one. You're too young.) Does it have a chorus? Oh, yeah--we know that one. He can play it on the banjo......Tw