BS: Just a Newbie

Subject: RE: BS: Just a Newbie
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 01:28 AM

recent Catter pics - contact Joe Offer or Katlaughing if you want to post a pic

Mudcat on Flickr

Songs from the Mudcat Songbook

Subject: RE: BS: Just a Newbie
From: scouse
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 05:57 AM

Welcome to the Madhouse! A knowledgeable lot these Mudcatter's!!
AsAye,
Phil.

Subject: RE: BS: Just a Newbie
From: Rowan
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 02:14 PM

I've honestly got to ask for a bit of a translation... Leather ferret?

It's an Oz colloquial name for a concertina. I used to do battle with a bumskediddle, in times past as well. That's a Murrumbidgee name for a lagerphone.

You'll get used to that sort of nonsense on Mudcat.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Just a Newbie
From: DougR
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 03:52 PM

Welcome Wandersong, maybe you could answer a question that has been plaguing me ever since I joined Mudcat ('98 I think), here 'tis, Just WHAT is folk music? :>)

DougR (from Arizona)

Subject: RE: BS: Just a Newbie
From: Alice
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 03:56 PM

oh, NO! Don't start THAT again! LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Just a Newbie
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 08:00 PM

pics of lagerphones

lagerphones

Subject: RE: BS: Just a Newbie
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 08:04 PM

Warning: Do not attempt to answer DougR's question... There is no answer that won't piss off half the people here... You can take that to the bank...

BTW, in case you haven't thought about it, Dougie is kinda a resident trouble maker... Not to mention a died-in-the-wool Republican...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Just a Newbie
From: Celtaddict
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 06:47 PM

Hi, and welcome, Wandersong29! I am in Connecticut, not a musician (people always ask and I tell them, I don't sing, I sing along, and I don't play, I play with) but a friend years ago explained our role in the folk process: we accumulate, we don't really collect; we don't originate, and mercifully we do not perform. We are carriers. I spend a good deal of time tracking down lyrics and melodies, or whole songs, for singer friends, and taking songs to musicians saying 'listen to this!' and such. Actually my dad's term was procuress.
I fell in on a lyric search years ago and have never left. I typed in a couple of lines from the middle of a song I had heard once, and in about three minutes someone gave me the full song, album, lyrics...I was hooked.
Enjoy!

Subject: RE: BS: Just a Newbie
From: Cats
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 01:20 PM

Welcome from Bodmin Moor in Cornwall.