Before the first line on the homepage it says "The Mudcat Cafe" -- Any cafe worth its expresso is full of chat, beautiful women, folk music, denizens on the floor, bores, geniuses, and crabby people. Like this cafe. As has been said before, folk and blues are rooted in you-name-it of human experience, so they cannot be bounded simply. We cannot define a priori what will grow the next crop of folk music or blues. Having said that, the THREAD OF THREADS that weaves us together here is the community of musicians, listeners, waiters, in the cafe, or out on the porch. The number of music threads varies, the number of threads about George Bush or other non-obviously music stuff varies, but by and large the "family resemblance" is shared throughout. Cousin G. comes to town, rants for awhile, says his piece, and heads off, and the fiddler strikes up another tune. As long as the Porchmeister or Cafe Owner keeps the place open, and we remain here in his good graces, it percolates along, like cafe coffee.

yours, Peter T.