Very reasonable question Ed. I'm glad someone thought to ask it. The hilarious theories of Flattop, Aine etc aside, I'm wondering whether it is simply that the blues enthusiasts in the forum are massively outnumbered by the folkies?

My own serious musical interests, European art music apart, are English & contemporary folk and Irish traditional. These are fantastically well catered for here. But I've always intended to get better informed about blues, and I thought Mudcat might be the way. So far, I've seen very few blues-related threads. And my own knowledge of the subject is so poor, I don't even know the right questions to ask to start threads myself.