Bit of drift here about "Singer-songwriter". Not a term I like. I probably sing songs I've written more often than not, but I'd never in a million years use that label. Nor would I ever say I'm singing a folk song when I sing one of my own. (I just sing it, and if someone says they like it, or asks if I wrote it, I own up.)

But the only musical setting I feel at home in is folk music; and the modern songs I like best tend to be by people who would see it the same way.

I know what Joe Offer was meaning when he said "It seems that Mudcat may have almost universal recognition among UK folkies." I remember in a packed song session at Whitby, out in The Dolphin in Robin Hood's Bay, and he explained about him and the Mudcat when he got up to sing a song, and there was a whistle of recognition and approval through the room, most of it from people who probably never posted here.

Dave probably right too - there's overlap between the different sets of folk people, but the ones who come to song sessions at festivals like Whitby are particularly likely to be aware of the Mudcat, I suspect.

And there are a lot more who visit than who post. That's as well, maybe, because it could get awful crowded, if everyone chipped in all the time.

I hope the upgrade is going to help us get along as it does become more crowded - more posts, more threads, longer threads.