I had a closer look and found a lot under Folk genre including many in my area whom I patronize by attending concerts and/or buying music. From Gordon Lightfoot to less well known but still wonderful acts including The Blackest Crow, The Undesirables, Rosemary Phelan, Evalyn Parry, Jason LaPrade and many, many more. These are dedicated music makers all of them. I checked the "local" option when I searched on the Folk genre. There are users world wide.

The question I have is, why would ReverbNation have your e-mail address and why do you suppose they are spamming you?

All the same it's an interesting site with some tools that may be worth it for some musicians to buy--they offer co-ordinated web, social net & e-mail services that many would use sooner or later if they're more than a casual performer.

Thanks for bringing it up. I got to listen to some good music as well as check out some interesting stuff that isn't so much to my taste!