Welcome New Members! 2001 0130

Subject: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 01:31 AM

Have you noticed that there have been a lot of newer members posting of late? Some have been spotted and welcomed in the threads where they have appeared, but let's give all our new members a *proper* Mudcat welcome!

Newcomers, please, tell us a bit about what music you like and play or sing. And be sure to check out the FAQ permathread at the top of the forum list. All the Mudcat mysteries-- almost-- explained! Also, lists of great classic Mudcat threads of the past, to help you make sense of some of the people you'll bump into around here!

*Lurkers,* we welcome you, too-- post away, members or not!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 01:38 AM

And a second from the floor here. Does seem like that, doesn't it? And a whole lot of Guest Posters lately. But Welcome to the Real Zoo, all of you. All reasonable requests we try to fulfill. And some not so reasonable ones.........seek ye the Jello Pit. Lime is preferrable. Not all of us are dangerous.......

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Amergin
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 01:40 AM

Just watch out for Sorcha....

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 02:08 AM

Whaaaa? Whassup there, 'Gin? Watch out for WHO?? ME?? and just why, may I ask? Just cuz I is the current Champ.....(only means I spend way too much time here......) Waaa!

(does this make me on a par with spaw? you gotta watch out for him, too, LOL!)

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Amergin
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 03:45 AM

I don't know....I heard about you and Cletus....

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 03:55 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Hollowfox
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 04:55 PM

Welcome, fellow folkies!

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: mousethief
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 04:59 PM

Same here!

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: GUEST,Caseyhimself
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 05:04 PM

First time visitor. Like the look of the threads I have seen so far. I found the site looking for lyrics to "The Stone outside Dan Murphys door" No success on the search.

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 07:19 PM

Caseyhimelf, did you search threads or just the Digitrad? Also, did you try posting a thread requesting help looking? That's how most stuff gets found-- people here know all the corners to look in.

Welcome!! Join?

~Susan

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Snuffy
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 08:00 PM

Casey

It's in the Digital Tradition Database. click here. I found it by typing [stone outside] in the DigiTrad Lyrics Search box at the top of the page.

Typing something in square brackets tells the dearch to find the exact phrase, but I guess it's not easy for a newcomer to find out where it tells you that.

Welcome. Hope you find many more.

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: MMario
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 08:06 PM

casey - try putting "stone outside" into the supersearch box (minus the qoutes) - it brought it up for me.

if that doesn't work, click here: THE STONE OUTSIDE DAN MURPHY'S DOOR

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Sarah2
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 08:18 PM

See, I love this place: just learned about brackets around search words. Thanks, Snuffy!

Sarah

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 08:42 PM

Sarah2, I see by clicking on your name you've joined fairly recently. Care to tell us a bit about yourself?

Welcome, bien venue, vellcom....

~S~

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Sarah2
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 09:36 PM

Susan, thanks.

Autobiography time? Hmmm...

I was born in Southern Illinois; most of my relatives are midwesterners. My favorite ancestors are Thomas Paine and George Burroughs, which probably explains both why I shoot my mouth off too much and why it has been predicted that I'll be hanged some fine day...

I grew up in Houston, and was most fortunate to discover folk music by accepting a part-time job while I was in high school, working for a neighbor who owned a little place called Sand Mountain Coffee House. I learned some of my first songs on guitar there, from Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, JJ Walker, Allen Damron -- such folk when we were all young. It was magic.

I live now in Amarillo, "interesting" town but pretty devoid of folk music, a few true friends and me mum here still to care for. I have one brother, who lives up in Fairbanks but comes down during the winter to enjoy our balmy 40-degree weather and only 10 or so inches of snow now and then. I have one son, now serving his second enlistment in the Marine Corps. I have no man, having lost the last one to a bottle; right now, can't see the point in forming that kind of attachment.

I play in a folk trio, moi (guitar, sometimes the tenor banjo), a keyboard whiz, and a viola. I'm a low whisky-voiced alto at best, a high whisky-voiced tenor more like it. The viola player is soprano, so we harmonize fairly well. We mostly do Celtic stuff when in public, there being the most call for that here, but we play around with '40s music, blues, all manner of songs.

There, more than you wanted to know. My life in four paragraphs.

Well, okay, I left out the weird parts...

Sarah

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: wysiwyg
Date: 31 Jan 01 - 01:28 AM

Cool! I have a son and stepson in their first Navy tours, nuke techs.

I think you'll be safe enough here at Mudcat-- death here is usually by fire!

Welcome again!

~S~

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: PhantomNL
Date: 31 Jan 01 - 09:35 AM

What I do in music? Well.. I play the guitar and bodhran, and besides that I sing. I'm from the Netherlands, and there I try to join a traditional folksession every week. Most of the music we play is Irish or Scottish. This summer I hope to move to Edinburgh (Scotland), to live there for about two years (at least). I'll hope to be accepted as a student over there and then I'll join a lot of sessions too! If you have any suggestions...

Have fun! Marieke.

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: wysiwyg
Date: 31 Jan 01 - 10:38 AM

Hi Marieke! Welcome!

Pssst! Watch out for the bodhran-player jokes here, you'll find trhat when people get bored they pick on bodhran players! When this happens, be sure to retaliate with banjo jokes.

When you get to Scotland, you can post threads here asking about sessions.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Gray Rooster
Date: 31 Jan 01 - 02:14 PM

I'm a Dallasite by birth (VERY rare these daze). I've played some instrument or another all my life.

I'm not really "new" here. I've played several times on the MudCat Radio program by phone. I've lurked around a bit and GUEST commented on many occasions.

I play all styles of music. My favorite being "that which I'm playing at the time."

I too, know of SARAH2's Sand Mountain in Houston. John (the owner w a y back then) paid me $15 one night when I was stone broke and still wet (as a folker) behind the ears. I still see him at the Kerrville Folk Festival most years and purchased a Breedlove from him at his shop (Sand Mountain Music) a couple of years ago. I've swapped with Townes, BW, Willie, Phil Ochs, Jerry Jeff, Seeger and a slew of others in different genre's and opened for a number of pretty fair performers.

I'm still waiting for a visit down here from (I believe)Rick. He wanted me to teach him what I was playing on his show.

This is a great community. Eventually some do die by fire, but there are more than enough new replacements (it keeps growing and growing and growing . . .)

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: wysiwyg
Date: 31 Jan 01 - 02:17 PM

Welcome!

~S~

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Gray Rooster
Date: 31 Jan 01 - 02:24 PM

The honor is mine. Thank YOU.

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 Feb 01 - 01:23 PM

You are all cordially invited to visit
>THIS THREAD
for a related discussion.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Gray Rooster
Date: 01 Feb 01 - 01:34 PM

Susan, (and anyone else inclined to follow the >THIS THREAD link), there is an error from the server trying to process your Blue Clicky.

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Hawker
Date: 01 Feb 01 - 01:56 PM

Hi, I am from Cornwall in England. I like folk music and song, God this sounds sad doesn't it? ........ Hi, My real name is Lucy I am almost and alcoholic........ No Really, I am a folkie who sings plays and writes - and enjoys following the threads hereat the cafe. Cheers. Lucy(Hawks)

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Noreen
Date: 01 Feb 01 - 02:43 PM

Welcome, Lucy. Download 'PalTalk' and come and join us one evening?

Noreen

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Stewart
Date: 01 Feb 01 - 03:59 PM

Hi, I slipped into Mudcat last Sept, I guess, without any formal introduction, so here it is. I live in Seattle, retired for the 2nd time from the Univ. of Washington, retired the 1st time from St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minnesota) 4 1/2 years ago as Chem. Prof. and moved to Seattle. My new career is as an umemployed musician - I can afford it now.

I was born and grew up in So. Calif., went to Pomona College and the Univ. of Illinois where I studied Chemistry, but also music (voice). My interest in folk music had it's roots in listening to the Grand Ole Opry on radio, Sat evenings in the early 50's. Later did much classical music (opera workshops, choral groups, etc.) but am now back to folk music (more freedom of expression). I enjoy trad music of the British Isles, and have recently gotten into Klezzmer and Yiddish music. I sing, play guitar and fiddle (studied classical violin as a kid, but quit in high school and only took it up again a few years ago).

Here in Seattle, I coordinate an open mic/acoustic concert venue in the Ballard area for Victory Music, and am active in Seattle Folklore Society's weekly song circle. I enjoy performing at our open mic. I also am organizing a new trad (British Isles & Northern Lands) music jam - both instrumental and vocal. So with my retirement, I am as busy as ever, but also get to practice my music more.

Cheers, S. in Seattle

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 Feb 01 - 05:19 PM

Wow, Stewart, welcome! Do you know other Seattle area Mudcatters?

~Susan

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: artbrooks
Date: 01 Feb 01 - 11:09 PM

We are Art and Jenn (except Jenn mostly doesn't do chat lines). My job has moved me around the country, and we have started or joined song circles in Salt Lake, Seattle, Madison (WI), Erie (PA) and now in Prescott (AZ). We folk and contra dance and enjoy folk music generally and (me mostly) particularly Celtic. We have, from time to time, dabbled in Balkan, Israeli, and Yiddish music. Jenn plays guitar and I bang on the bodhran. And most of the bodhran jokes have at least a grain of truth.

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 Feb 01 - 11:31 PM

wELCOME aRT AND jENN!

~s~

who let Capslock in again?

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Gray Rooster
Date: 02 Feb 01 - 04:41 PM

Er, Susan, what thread were you alluding to above?

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Sarah2
Date: 02 Feb 01 - 09:06 PM

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Sarah2
Date: 02 Feb 01 - 09:07 PM

oops...sorry, just lurking...

Sarah

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: GUEST,~S~
Date: 02 Feb 01 - 09:35 PM

The thread was, "What Would You Do Differently?"

Interested in new members' perspectives.

~S~

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Gray Rooster
Date: 03 Feb 01 - 01:16 PM

Ah, thank you.

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Feb 01 - 02:55 PM

~curstsey~

~S~

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 02:41 AM

refresh

~B. Ann Venue

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: cowboypoet
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 12:51 PM

I've never been much of a joiner, and I can't say I'm terribly impressed with an outfit that'll take me on as a member. However, I've been sneaking in and rustling lyrics from the Digital Tradition for a couple of years and finally decided to do the honorable thing and show up in daylight, so to speak.

Some of you may know from other threads that I'm a cowboy poet and singer, a grammar fanatic (or, as I prefer to think of it, a lover of language), and somethng of a wise-ass. In yet another thread someone recently asked for the definition of a curmudgeon. I told my wife, a woman of nearly infinite patience, that I was thinking of sending him my picture and she said, "You aren't a curmudgeon -- you don't have the dedication."

I was born in Virginia instead of here in Colorado as nature intended. I blame my parents for that. But I got here as soon as I could, and I don't feel at home anywhere else.

My interest in folk music was awakened during the Great Folk Scare of the 60's. I had the privilege of studying under Arthur Kyle Davis at the University of Virginia, so I learned a good deal about traditional music. I once wrote a 70-page paper on "Captain Wedderburn's Courtship" which is an interesting song, but not *that* interesting.

In 1963 I saw Ian and Sylvia at Newport and from that moment I knew exactly what I wanted to do with my life. I have made my living as a performer, but I suffer from Multiple Musical Personality Disorder and it wasn't unusual for one set to include a Childe Ballad, a cowboy song, "Casey At the Bat", a Tom Lehrer tune, an aria from some obscure opera -- well, you get the idea. It's hard to find a core audience for something like that since the Commercial Folk Era ended, though possibly not so hard as I might think judging from the discussions that go on in this arena.

Four years ago I wrote my first cowboy poem, and since then I've pretty much specialized. I haven't lost interest in any of the other kinds of music I've always loved, but I think maybe concentrating on one has been beneficial. And I get to hang around with a better class of people at Cowboy Poetry Gatherings. Kinda like here.

Anyway, thanks for the welcome, and remember -- breakfast is the most important meal of the day, because if you ain't home by then, partner, you're in trouble!

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 12:58 PM

Oh, welcome cowboypoet! You met up with our Amos yet? Much in common.

If yer a trustworthy SOB, I may have a project that would interest you. (I'll take your wife's word on it if you aren't sure.) An old booklet of cowboy songs, crumbling.... have a scanner? Feel like transcribing lyrics? Wouldja send it back? Cuz I, uh, borrowed it...

Glad you found this thread after my rather Dunderbeckian link.

As has often been said, "Yer among yer own kind now, God help ye!"

~Susan

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Amos
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 01:00 PM

Dang, cowboy. Good to have you on board. I'd like a twenty-page analysis, please, on the inter-dynamics of wranglers and spur-wearing during squat breaks on the trail....

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Sarah2
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 01:48 PM

Amos,

Hours in the saddle make calluses thicker than spur rowels...

Yours from Cowtown, U.S.A.,

Sarah

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Amos
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 01:51 PM

LOL, Sairah! And your credentials for knowing this are... never mind, let's not go there!

A

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Sarah2
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 02:10 PM

Amos,

I live in Amarillo it's just common knowledge 'round here...I promise ya, that's all: The local specie do not appeal, as they are mostly the inspiration for Shel Silverstein's "Throw Another Log On the Fire."

Sarah

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Amos
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 02:16 PM

Well they do say everything is bigger, in Texas. But Logs!!!?? Ouch!! Never mind the spurs...

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Sarah2
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 02:16 PM

Amos,

I live in Amarillo; it's just common knowledge 'round here...I promise ya, that's all: The local species does not inspire me to investigate on a personal level, as it is the archetype for Shel Silverstein's "Throw Another Log On the Fire."

Sarah

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Sarah2
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 02:46 PM

Now there's a new one: I've managed to post the same message twice before, but never with someone's retort between them!

(Amos, logs are not considered joke fodder in Texas right now...)

Sarah

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: cowboypoet
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 11:17 AM

Hey, Sarah. It'd be an honor and a pleasure to help out. I do have a scanner with OCR software, and I have a reputation for returning things I borrow. I have other reputations, too, but let's just accentuate the positive, OK?

Amos, you're outta luck on the 2o-page analysis, but maybe I'll write a poem about it.

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: GUEST, ~Susan
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 11:28 AM

cowboypoet, please e-mail me so we can discuss the scanning project.

Amos' analysis can wait til you've scanned them! And you BETTER return them or we will ALL have to troop over to your house and it sounds like your wife will help us mock you!

~S~

[e-mail]

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Sarah2
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 12:15 PM

Okay, I was lost there for a minute; had to go back and read previous posts to get the scanner bit. Gee, cowboypoet, I thought you were gonna scan your calluses for me! But it was Susan's project you had in mind.

Brain in the gutter today...

Sarah

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 12:29 PM

Thread and brain creep alert... went like this: scanners.... sit on a copier to make a butt print, saddles.... Sarah2, they use superglue to catch fingerprints... glue on the saddle...

There's a gutter for ya!

~S~

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Sarah2
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 07:32 PM

~S~,

One can only stand in breathless awe...

Sarah

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: wdyat12
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 07:50 PM

Thanks for the Welcome to New Members! I apologize for coming across in recent threads as sarcastic and/or belligerent and/or uninformed. Last night I decided to play the drunken boor at The Mudcat Mellow Tavern. Bad Plan! Amergin put me in my place though, and I ended up begging for a hug. Well, I never was real good at role playing anyway, but I am genuinelly interested in all that Mudcat Cafe Radio has to offer otherwise. wdyat12

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 10:06 PM

Welcome, wdyat12, and well said, 'nuff said!

Ya know, somewhere around this computer I have a bookmark to one of the finest FAQs around, on netiquette in particular for the kinds of stories that are often told at the Tavern-- guidelines for character-to-character interaction. Would you do me a favor? Would you bug me till I dig it up and post the link to it somewhere here at the Mudcat?

I'd appreciate it. It's long overdue so people don't get their tit in a wringer, their panties in a wad, their twiddly bits in an electric outlet....

~S~

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 05:41 PM

wefwesh

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 10:05 AM

Have you noticed that there have been a lot of newer members posting of late? Some have been spotted and welcomed in the threads where they have appeared, but let's give all our new members a *proper* Mudcat welcome!

Newcomers, please, tell us a bit about what music you like and play or sing. And be sure to check out the FAQ permathread at the top of the forum list. All the Mudcat mysteries-- almost-- explained! Also, lists of great classic Mudcat threads of the past, to help you make sense of some of the people you'll bump into around here!

*Lurkers,* we welcome you, too-- post away, members or not!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 10:25 AM

Who is Sarah the Flute...I play in a Euro-Celtic Ceilidh band called The Flying Chaucers (see website for details). As well as floots & whistles I do the calling and spend a lot of time shouting at people on a Saturday night!!! I do some singing with another band called Morrighan so this Mudcat site is a treasure trove!!! Enuf of me - can ANYONE help with the request I posted today???. My first attempt at this. Thanks to all for the welcome.

Subject: RE: Welcome New Members! 2001 0130
From: pattyClink
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 12:31 PM

Hey, cowboypoet, thanks for introducing yourself. My grandpa used to sing a version of Captain Wedderburns Courtship long,long ago, so your 70 page paper sounds interesting enough to read! I haven't checked the DT yet but if your scholarship isn't in there, maybe someday you could add it?

I am pretty new too so I guess I have to step up and introduce. I just like ballads and beautiful tunes and Donegal roots music. Usedta sing for people but got a few too many 'you know any James Taylor' requests and stopped trying. Grew up in Chicago with all the other marymargarets but have spent my adult life mostly in the South. I'm in Jackson, Miss. Current musical interest: arranging for four-part vocal. I'd like to try Wild Mountain Thyme next because I think it would be so accessible to people around here, but am I going to go through copyright hell over a contested authorship, I wonder??

many thanks to Max and all those who share so much lore and music with so many people, even those who try their souls.

PattyClink

(is this where you have to explain yer nickname? this is an island nickname; were I from Arranmore or Beaver Island, there would be so many people with my first and surnames, I would be given a shorthand name reflecting who my da was)