To catch people up-- James and I have been corresponding about all of this and I have explained that we have several threads going where various artists's lyrics are gathered up, either posted in the main thread for that artist, or indexed. As these are organized, he'll be deciding how to send folks here. For example, we have Uncle Dave Macon and Charlie Poole threads-- he may want to link directly to these at some point, for those artists.

He has also explained to me that for what he has added above, it's pretty much a batch opeation-- not requiring him to go into each of his hundreds of listings to build hundreds of links, one by one, back to here.

Of course this is a brand-new way to link between sites, and we'll want to see how it goes with our friends at Honkingduck before trying to apply it with other sites. But the more we index ourselves around here, the more valuable links to the Mudcat will be, and the more specific they may get over time. So let's work out the bugs as we go, with this project, and see what we learn.

~Susan