What's interesting is that we are indeed discussing American traditional music here and in many other threads on the mudcat, so I don't understand the need for another forum. What's also interesting is how all the special interest groups (myself included) climb out of their shells to start up the "Hey, what about..." branches of the discussion, which gives it more perspective relative to genre, race, ethnicity, religion, brand of toothpaste, whatever.

BuckMulligan, I used to love to play Scott Joplin pieces on the piano, and wasn't good enough to do them fast, so I guess I played it the way he wanted it.