Thanks; as I indicated, a rant needs no response-- it's just venting.

But since you replied to it--

If you consider that I have a dozen or more folders more full than the ones I plumbed with the above results, perhaps you will understand why I prefer to discuss specific songs in the threads where there is already existing discussion.... it's just too unwieldy for me to approach the songs by category. At least one fulltime staff person would be needed to research your topic.

While I was plumbing, for example, I saw several OTHER possible categories that, if we were to run threads on those categories, would take more chair time than I am able to give to go back over the very same ground.

So for some of us, the category approach doesn't make sense, yet we may be just the people who have a lot to contribute beyond the handful of songs known to a large number of people that have become the limited set of folksongs people think of in the folk idiom.... sadly, we lose touch that way with the artists over time who have bled to give us that very body of work.

You will see how time-consuming it can be if you look now, song by song using the "few" titles I supplied, for sound clips and videos. Some of those very same song clips may be in exisiting threads, if it was a song we worked up in our band; for awhile I posted all the "perfomable" stuff I came across, with links to clips LBYT (in Life Before YouTube). I don't need the clips, although it would be interesting to see and hear others' approaches to the songgs. In most cases, if I have a text file, I already ALSO have a sound clip or full-length MP3 on file as well.

I try to contribute within the prevailing organizational approach to informational resources here, because those informational structures make what I can contribute actually feasible. I'm not alone in that preference; like many Mudcatters, I've emailed clips for individual songs to answer a request when a thread requesting a specific song comes up for view.


It would have been quicker, if I wanted to spend the time, to start with a list of place names and do a computer search to see what songs I had for those names. But that still would be beyond the chair time I can give.

~Susan