Thanks, fellas.

I don't worry about what GUESTs who post like that think... but I do think, sometimes, that the impression they leave new folks with should be corrected when appropriate.

Debby McClatchy gave an excellent workshop on old time music at Clarion Folk College, and she talked about how all the music of the time, and much that we now call "old timey," was affected by the early recording industry. She had an angle on old time music's relationship to vaudeville, minstrelsy, and what she called "parlor music" that I only partially understand... so I am fascinated as this discussion moves forward, and as I read some of the stuff in the links.

NEW LINKS are wanted, so Butch (AKA George), spill it! Whatcha got? Wade right in....

~Susan