Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) about this site:
Q01) How long has this site been on-line?
Q02) What is the purpose of this site?
Q03) What types of musicians are NOT listed
at this site?
- new 11-22-1998
Q04) How do I move around this site, i.e. how is it
designed?
- new 11-22-1998
Q05) Why no graphic or sound files?
Q06) Why can't I search this site?
(10-10-1999 update: you can now!)
Q07) How many people visit this site?
Q08) How often is this site updated?
- new 11-22-1998
Q08a) Can you book my act, create a Home Page
for it, or write a review of my latest album?
- new 12-20-1998
Q09) When is the best time to submit an update
or request a link to my site?
- new 11-22-1998
Q10) Do you install reciprocal links?
- new 11-22-1998
Q11) Why should I check the
What's New? page weekly?
- new 11-22-1998
Q12) Where do I find the lyrics (tablature or
chords) for "song title"?
- new 11-22-1998
Q13) How do I contact
"artist/group name"?
- new 11-22-1998
Q14) Why do you have so many broken
Itinerary ("Itin") links?
- new 11-29-1998
Q14a) Why have you deleted all links to individual
artist/group itineraries on their personal Web pages?
- new 12-31-2000
Q15) Why do you have so many links listed
as "Author ?" ?
- new 12-13-1998
Q15a) I maintain the musician's name Web
site. Would you please remove my name from your link and replace it with
the musician's name or the site name?
- new 05-14-2000
Q16) What do the dates in the copyright notice
at the bottom of every page signify?
- new 05-30-1999
Q17) Why do you have such strange, cryptic
filenames like ander_muriel.shtml and birth2days.shtml?
- new 10-10-1999
Q18) What is your Cookie policy?
- new 01-16-2000
Q19) Why did you link to my site as I requested,
but you didn't reply to my request?
- new 01-30-2000
Q20) Do you link to sites that require everyone
to login to see their site?
- expanded 07-16-2000
(this was part of Q04)
Q21) What information do you gather about
individual visitors to your site?
(i.e., Privacy Policy / Privacy Statement)
- new 07-16-2000
Q22) What is your bootleg policy?
- new 05-12-2001
Q23) How do you define "recording artist"?
- new 07-29-2001
Q24) How do you define a "compilation album"
vs. a "collection album"?
- new 10-28-2001
Q25) In your discographies,
why do you mention, "track times are not listed"?
- new 10-27-2002
Q26) How many musical artists and groups
do you list on your entire Web site?
- new 05-12-2005
Q27) What kind of "Artists" are listed on your
Web site?
- new 01-02-2007
Q28) Why don't you link to MySpace pages?
- new 02-02-2007
Q29) How much recording session data do you
include in your discographies?
- new 01-30-2008
Q01) How long has this site been on-line?
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A01) The task of organizing my many Folk Music bookmarks into Web
pages began on 1-23-1995. The Index
was put on-line on 11-25-1995. It's original title,
"The FolkBook Index",
was changed to "FolkLib Index: A Library of Folk Music Links" on
03-08-1998. Note: the "Lib" in "FolkLib" is pronounced with a long "i",
as in "Library".
Q02) What is the purpose of this site?
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A02) This is an index site for Folk Music and other acoustic music
related information on the World Wide Web. With a few exceptions, this
site mainly links to other sites and attempts to organize what is on the
Web and hopefully makes that information a little bit easier to find. The
exceptions are the detailed information found on the
Birthdays/Bibliography,
Bibliography and
Discography
pages, some of the information on individual
Artist Index Files, and the
Wisconsin Bluegrass Bands database.
This site's primary purpose is to make it as easy and fast as possible
for you to find specific information about an individual acoustic artist
or group, and then link you to that information.
Q03) What types of musicians are NOT listed
at this site?
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A03) This is a Folk and other Acoustic Music related site. Except for
Wisconsin non-folk musicians,
and some
fingerstyle acoustic guitarists and
harpers/harpists,
you will probably not find other individual artists/groups listed from
such musical fields as classical, opera, jazz, rap, reggae, punk, heavy
metal, or most pop/rock/country. Some non-acoustic exceptions you will
find here are, a few country artists I like, the links to other sites
which have lists of
Classical,
Country, and
Jazz artists/groups,
a few top-40 musicians I like (mostly from prior to the late 1970's
when I stopped listening to anything except
Wisconsin Public Radio [WPNE-FM]),
and a number of my favorite
1950's and 1960's comedians.
Q04) How do I move around this site, i.e. how is it
designed?
- top / bottom of page
A04) At the top of every page are internal links to different
sections contained on the current page, and sometimes to related pages at
this site. At the bottom of every page are links which will return
you to the home page and/or to other page(s) at
this site that linked you to the current page. There is also a
Wisconsin Music Site Map page with links
to all Wisconsin related musical information at this site. You can always
use the BACK function of your browser to return to the previous page. No
link here will EVER open a second browser window disabling your BACK
function.
Also, although there are a few exceptions,
most of the links that appear in bold are links to other people's
sites. Most non-bolded links go to other locations at this site. There
are deliberately EXTENSIVE! cross-reference links throughout the entire
site to other related information here. As an example, there are over
15,000 "name=" HTML anchor tags on these pages that can be linked to, by
anybody, from anywhere (not including the TOP and BOT anchors that I would
gratefully appreciate other sites NOT use).
For compatibility with every browser that ever existed, there are
no frames, image maps, backgrounds, counters, java, JavaScript, popups,
cookies, sounds,
annoying scrolling text, animations or blinking text,
links to specific browser downloads (ALL browsers are welcome),
and only one graphic. This site is specifically
designed to be VERY Lynx and other text browser friendly. There is
only one page with tables and a font change,
discographies I have created, and an
alternative non-tables version
is provided.
If you have a problem accessing anything here with your browser,
please write and I will be glad to
work with you to make whatever changes to my site that may be necessary
for your browser and the PC/Macintosh/UNIX platform you are using.
Except for extremely special circumstances, I do not link to "splash"
pages, i.e. those which usually say, "this is my site, press here to
enter". Most splash pages contain no musical information of any kind, so I
only link to the page that they link to, or to the first page which I
think contains musical information. Also, most splash pages contain only a
graphic, with almost never any readable text, which, whether deliberately
or not, discriminates against the
blind and disabled.
Finally, as noted by the
RSACi/ICRA/FOSI graphics
on the home page, this is a family domain designed to be
used by all ages. Therefore, you DO NOT need an "AgeCheck ID" to
access anything here. [personal note: I have never had an "AgeCheck ID"
and I hope neither have any of my readers.] If you ever find a link here
that mistakenly goes directly to a page with pornographic content or
unacceptable language (as defined by anyone, like myself, who grew up in
the 1950s), please write
and it will be deleted immediately.
06-10-2004 update:
Note to those who link to specific artist entries in the Index: Not
all anchor tags here are set in stone, that is, up until
the book goes to press.**
Until then, they can, and will, change as necessary in order to keep them
unique and unambiguous. For example, I found I had two Wisconsin artists,
Steve Miller and Stewart Miller and I was using the same anchor for both,
"#Miller,S". To avoid confusion, I changed them to "#Miller,Sv" and
"#Miller,Sw", and changed all internal links to their respective entries.
Linking to "#Miller,S" for either one will no longer work. If the link
you have goes to the right page, but not the right location, use your
browser's "Show HTML Source" function to see if the anchor has changed since
you created your link or personal bookmark. Also, as explained on the
Wisconsin Artists page,
some artists may move to a different page for various reasons: 1) If I
find out a national artist once lived in Wisconsin, their entry will be
moved to one of the Wisconsin pages and a permanent link will be added to
the new location, or 2) their entry was moved from the
"Wisconsin Artists" page to another page by genre. In this case, as a
courtesy, a link to the new Wisconsin location will remain at the old
Wisconsin location for about six months to a year so you can update your
link. After that, the link will be removed and you will need to either
search
for the artist, or find them on the
Wisconsin Artist/Group Master Name Index
page. A page, once created here, will (almost) never be
deleted. If everything on a page is moved to another page, all internal
links to the old page will be removed from this site, but the old page
will remain permanently where it was with a link to the new location.
Since 1995, only two pages have been completely deleted, and it was done
under extremely unusual circumstances. Both cases involved lawyers or the
threat of same.
**
Please note that once URL's with anchor tags for Wisconsin
Pop and Rock musicians
are published in the book, those anchors will never, EVER! be changed
again. Every URL published in the book will remain valid as long as it is
possible for me to maintain this Web site. That will be my promise to all
readers of the book.
Q05) Why no graphic or sound files?
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A05) Graphic and sound files, no matter how pleasing to the eye and
ear, or whatever their file size, increase page loading time and defeat
my purpose of getting you from here to there as fast as possible. At the
moment, there is only one displayed graphic in the entire Index,
at the top of the
home page, and
this note explains why
it has to be there. This rule applies even to the
FolkLib Index Logo, which is
linked to from the title of every page, but which will not be
displayed on any page.
Q06) Why can't I search this site?
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A06) I don't know how to create an index for all the
650+
pages here.
10-10-1999 update: you can now search this site!
See the What's New? FAQ about the
weekly re-indexing of this site.
Q07) How many people visit this site?
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A07)
Except for the 2,765 hits on my page for
John Denver the week after he died, and
the 877 and 508 hits in the following two weeks, probably no more than
a half dozen pages have ever gotten over
500 hits in any one week, before or since. For example, the
List of Lyrics Sites page,
see Q12), topped 500 hits for the first time the
week of 11-09-1998. The entire site averages between
4,000 - 7,000 hits a day, divided by over 600 different pages, means
that the average for each page is about 10 hits a day.
Q08) How often is this site updated?
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A08) The FolkLib Index is a personal,
spare-time project unrelated to my day job as a
Computer Consultant/Programmer at the
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
Updates are made only on weekends and they are only installed once a week
late Sunday night.
08-31-2002 update:
I retired yesterday. Important
corrections may get installed during the week now, but the complete upload
of all changes made during the past week and
re-indexing for searching purposes,
will continue to be done only once a week.
04-22-2004 update:
As explained in
What's New?,
full site updates will be done every four weeks instead of weekly
until the book goes to press sometime late in 2006.
Q08a) Can you book my act, create a Home Page for it, or write a
review of my latest album?
A08a) See my above UW Oshkosh job description, A08).
I do not play an instrument, and I am not an agent, or a manager, or a
record company, or a reviewer, or any other job connected with the music
industry. Strictly in my spare-time, I create
discographies,
research all existing
Wisconsin Bluegrass Bands,
and perform a Librarian's type of service by indexing Folk Music on the
Web, no more and no less.
08-31-2002 update: I have no plans to do any of the above music
related jobs in retirement. Writing new discographies
and a "Wisconsin Discography" book,
creating other new on-line projects, and maintaining the Index will remain
my primary tasks for the foreseeable future.
Q09) When is the best time to submit an update
or request a link to my site?
- top / bottom of page
(aka "Submit Site" / "Submit My Site" instructions)
A09) If the subject of your musical page
reasonably fits somewhere in this Index, I will be
glad to add a link to your page. Now that I am retired, your update
requests can be submitted at any time, but the updates will not get
installed until the date noted as "Next site update" on the
What's New? page.
Extremely important! Make sure when you request a link to a
musician's home page, you include who maintains the site. If you do not
include a name, and I can't find the Webmaster's name on the pages, your
link will be listed as
Author ? (Webmaster unknown).
Q10) Do you install reciprocal links?
- top / bottom of page
A10) Yes! At the bottom of most pages is a "Known links to this page:"
section which lists reciprocal links for other people's pages which link
to that page. If you link to one of my pages that has a "LINKS" section,
please write and send me the URL
address of the page where you put the link, and I will add a reciprocal
Thank You link back to you.
Q11) Why should I check the
What's New? page weekly?
- top / bottom of page
A11) Every new page added to the Index is listed there in bold
faced type. For those who also maintain links to other musical sites,
when major musical sites go off-line, or change their URL address or site
name, the before and after URL's are listed there. If you can't find the
new location of broken links on your pages, use your browser's FIND
function to search for the old URL there. You just might find it. Also,
if there is a problem and I am unable to upload any updates at all on a
particular weekend, if possible, a notice will be included on the
What's New? page.
When What's New? changes, you
will know all other updates for the week have been installed. The site
will be re-indexed for searching purposes
within 15 minutes after What's New? changes.
Q12) Where do I find the lyrics (tablature or
chords) for "song title"?
- top / bottom of page
By far, the most frequently asked question!
A12) There are NO lyrics at this site. I do not know the
location of any particular lyric, tablature or chord page. Links to every
site (at least every one that I know about) that contains lyrics,
tablature and/or chords for songs by more than one musician, can be found
on my List of Lyrics Sites page. For
songs by an individual artist or group, also try their Home Page. If they
are an acoustic artist and I know where their Home Page is, there will be
a link under their name ("lastname, firstname" or "group name")
in the Index. Additionally, some search
engines
allow a phrase search, like: "wreck of the edmund fitzgerald" (be sure to
include the quotation marks) which may find the song title you need.
Good luck in your searching.
Q13) How do I contact
"artist/group name"?
- top / bottom of page
A13) Try their Home Page. If they are an acoustic artist and I know
where their Home Page is, there will be a link under their name
("lastname, firstname" or "group name")
in the Index. If they have an
individual Artist Index File,
and I know what their address is, it is included on their page. Try
contacting their
record label, or their
booking agent or management firm if it is listed. Many of the
artists/groups listed here have
bibliography entries
on the page where I attempt to index write-ups about them found in a number
of paper books. Some books include contact information, however, most do
not. If none of the above is helpful, I do not know how to contact them.
Q14) Why do you have so many broken
Itinerary ("Itin") links?
- top / bottom of page
A14) At one time since January 1995, there was actual concert
information linked to for that artist/group at that Dirty Linen or
Musi-Cal
Itinerary site. As soon as someone
submits a current concert schedule to that site, the link will work
again. However, if you know that the artist is deceased or permanently
stopped performing, or the group has disbanded, or you are ABSOLUTELY!
sure that NOBODY will EVER again submit concerts for an individual
touring artist/group to one of these two itinerary sites because they are
trying to keep their concerts a secret from those who do not know their
Web site exists, or who are not on their mailing list,
please write and I will delete that
link, and possibly every other link for that artist/group. See my
Missing Itineraries page for
information about how to submit concerts for acoustic musicians to
Dirty Linen and Musi-Cal.
Q14a) Why have you deleted all links to individual
artist/group itineraries on their personal Web pages?
- top / bottom of page
A14a) You might call this a one-man personal crusade to try to
convince artists and groups or their booking agents, management firms,
record labels, etc., that they need to think globally about promoting
themselves or their clients. Yes, by all means, put your concert/gig
schedule on your Web page, but don't believe for a second that every fan
will see it there. You must realize that for every fan who knows about
the itinerary on your Web page, there are probably a thousand others that
would love to attend your concert and shower you with money by buying all
your recordings at the show, but they have no clue you have a Web page,
much less, an itinerary on it. Fortunately for your musical career, most
on-line acoustic music fans know about
Dirty Linen and Musi-Cal,
or they subscribe to
Dirty Linen magazine.
If you don't submit all of your concerts to both of these sites which are
designed to promote acoustic music concerts in print and on-line, and do
it regularly, you are missing out on a significant portion of your
potential audience. If I were a musician, and I hired you to promote my
concerts in every way possible, and you limited your promotion to a list
hidden on a single page buried in the millions of pages on the Web, I
would fire you and hire somebody else.
Looking at it another way, I, and most people I know, do not have time
to visit the Web page itineraries of a thousand different artists on the
slim chance their next concert might be close enough to attend.
http://www.musi-cal.com/search?radius=90&city=Oshkosh&state=WI
shows me every posted concert within 90 miles of Oshkosh, at least for me,
a reasonable driving distance for a Friday or Saturday evening concert. I
cut this to 30 miles on Sunday-Thursday. Personally, I check Musi-Cal in
this way two or three times a week in order to decide which concerts to
attend. If your concert doesn't show up on these displays, I probably
won't know about it. Many, many people use Musi-Cal in the same way.
Finally, if you don't like my policy of not linking to the itinerary
on your personal Web page, you can put much of the blame on Joan Baez's
nameless promoters. They do not see fit to regularly post her concerts to
either Dirty Linen or Musi-Cal. As a four-decade fan, yes I bought Joan
Baez #1 and her 1959 appearance at Newport with Bob Gibson when they were
first released, I lost out on the chance to see her in person for the very
first time because of her promoters. By the time I found out about her
10-24-2000 concert in Oshkosh in the local news, it was sold out. The
promoters are probably very proud of the turnout for this concert, but
they really ticked off this one dedicated fan. In conclusion, don't hide
your itinerary on your Web page, take a few extra minutes time and do what
is right for your career and all of your fans by always submitting all
your concerts regularly to
Dirty Linen and Musi-Cal,
please!
Q15) Why do you have so many links listed
as "Author ?" ?
- top / bottom of page
A15) Every off-site link here is labeled with either the name of the
musical organization, company, etc. or the name of the individual who
maintains the site linked to. With the rare exception of people like
Peter Berryman and
Gerri Gribi, most musicians do not have the time or
interest in becoming Web page designers. A small percentage of artist
pages are created by
record labels or
booking agents, management/promotions firms like
Folk Era and
Folklore Productions. The vast majority of
artist/group pages are created by a fan, personal friend or family member
of the artist. I try hard to discover the names of the individuals who
create and maintain an artist's page and give them full credit whenever I
can. I feel they really deserve this recognition for all their (in most
cases, unpaid) work.
Please write if you know the real
name of the Web page maintainer to replace my "Author ?" (Author unknown)
designation. Note also that I never use the word "Official" for any
artist's or group's page. I leave it up to the Web page author(s) to
convey that information.
Q15a) I maintain the musician's name Web site.
Would you please remove my name from your link and replace it with the
musician's name or the site name?
The second most frequently asked question, after
Where do I find lyrics?
A15a) Yes, and no. Yes, I will remove your name, but, no, I will not
replace it with with something other than the Webmaster's name. As stated
directly above, A15), my Home Page links for specific musicians are
listed by the individual(s) or musical organizations or companies (labels,
booking agents, etc.) who maintain the artist's Web site, and not by the
artist's name, unless I know they maintain their own site without
assistance. I do not like listing links by "Home Page #1", "#2", etc. for
every site about an artist there is on the Web, plus I believe Webmasters
(especially the unpaid ones) deserve every bit of credit and thanks they
can get for their Web page maintenance skills. You told me musician's
name does not maintain their site, you do. If you do not wish to have
your name appear in public for any reason whatsoever, there are two
options on how my link to your Web page will be named: "Author ?" or
"anonymous". Which do you prefer?
Q16) What do the dates in the copyright notice
at the bottom of every page signify?
- top / bottom of page
A16) "Copyright © 1991-2005" - The first date is the year the
file or Web page was first put on-line, and the second date
is the current year, or the year the page was last updated.
Q17) Why do you have such strange, cryptic
filenames like
ander_muriel.shtml and
birth2days.shtml ?
- top / bottom of page
A17) When I started creating the Index
on 1-23-1995, long filenames did not exist except
under VAX/VMS, where the files were and still are maintained, and under
UNIX, where they are installed. All files downloaded to DOS or Novell
were truncated to the "12345678.123" filename format. Filenames here have
been, and will continue to be, assigned so that if I, or anyone else,
downloads all
139
+
Index Web page files into the same DOS directory, no
file will be overwritten by any other file. In order to do this, every
filename must be unique within the first 8 characters, hence the strange
filenames.
Q18) What is your Cookie policy?
- top / bottom of page
A18) Personally, I feel that cookies are a serious, if not criminal,
invasion of privacy. By definition, cookies are
personal information about all site visitors, that is, every visitor,
including children. In the United States of America, it is a crime to
collect personal information about children on the Web.
I do not use cookies at this site. I also do not link to any
site that deliberately blocks access to everyone who chooses for security
reasons not to accept cookies, as well to everyone who uses a browser that
is not capable of accepting cookies. [02-13-2000 update] Cookies can also
be dangerous to your computer's health. Read about "poisoned cookies" and
malicious JavaScript code on the
CIAC warning page,
K-021: Malicious HTML Tags Vulnerability.
Q19) Why did you link to my site as I requested,
but you didn't reply to my request?
- top / bottom of page
A19) I try to reply to every request I get when I add the link,
however, MANY times my replies bounce back to me because the request was
sent from an invalid address. I really don't have time to track down
valid addresses for anyone. In some cases I have a question about your
link, but with no possibility of getting my question answered, I may have
to add your link in a way or in a location you don't like, or in rare
cases, when I must get a reply before I will add the link, you won't get
the link. To avoid these problems with your link request, please ALWAYS
write me from a valid address. If you have anti-spam characters in your
return address, please don't use that address for a request because I
won't be able to reply.
Q20) Do you link to sites that require everyone
to login to see their site?
- top / bottom of page
A20) No. Login pages usually contain no musical information, so I do
not link to them. The primary reason I don't, is because these sites
require you to enter some type of personal information (your E-Mail
address and usually much more) as part of setting up a login account. As
it is illegal and immoral to collect data
about children, by definition, children are not allowed access to these
sites. I don't link to any site that is not viewable by everyone,
children and adults.
Q21) What information do you gather about
individual visitors to your site?
(i.e., Privacy Policy / Privacy Statement)
- top / bottom of page
A21) Nothing, nada, zero, null, nil, never have, and never will !
Therefore, as I never, ever gather any information about any visitor to my
domain, there is no need for a Privacy Policy or a
Privacy Statement here. I have no personal information of any kind
to share with anybody, anywhere, at any time. Related: see my
Cookie Policy.
If you had fun reading this paragraph, you can read it again on my
Privacy Policy / Privacy Statement page.
Q22) What is your bootleg policy?
- top / bottom of page
A22) Bootleg recordings are those recordings made by individuals of
concerts, either live, or broadcast on radio or television. By definition,
bootlegs are not authorized by the artist and no portion of the sale of
these recordings ever goes to the artist. I don't see any problem with
making a recording off the public airwaves for your own personal use, but
in the best interests of the artist, and to protect the
copyright status
of the artist's and/or songwriter's work, these recordings should never be
sold or given to anyone else. As I see it, the entire purpose of the whole
bootleg industry is to deprive the artist/songwriter of just compensation
for their work. I do not list bootlegs in my discographies, unless they
were officially authorized by the artist, and I do not trade bootlegs, or
link to any site whose purpose is the unauthorized, and probably illegal,
trading of bootlegs. If you find a link in the Index that mistakenly
links to such a site,
please write
and the link will be deleted.
Q23) How do you define "recording artist"?
- top / bottom of page
A23) With the growth of the Internet and what it is possible to post
on-line, I feel it necessary to clarify matters. When I say "this artist
has recorded" or "recording artist", I am using the narrow definition that
a "recording" is an actual physical object, CD, Cassette, LP, VHS Video,
etc., that was released by a performing musician. Copies of each release
must be identical to each other, and produced in sufficient quantity that
a reasonable number of people have a chance to purchase a copy. Examples
which do not fit this definition: five CD's made for the members of a five
piece band and nobody else, and one of a kind CD's created by a performing
musician on their PC for their own personal use. As defined here, a
performing musician whose only recordings are only available on-line,
and/or someone who does not intend to ever perform in front of a live
audience, does not qualify as a "recording artist" due to the fact that
when the musician's Internet account is deleted, the recordings will no
longer exist. Non-recording artists and non-performers are listed on the
on-line music page.
Q24) How do you define a "compilation album"
vs. a "collection album"?
- top / bottom of page
A24) A "compilation album" is a recording by a single artist/group
with tracks taken from previous recordings they have made. A "collection
album" contains tracks by multiple artists, where, in most cases, every
track is by a different artist/group. As an example, as it is used at
this site, there are only "Judy Collins compilation albums". A "Judy
Collins collection album" cannot exist, unless it would refer to an album
of songs that Judy Collins composed which are performed by one or more
different artist/groups, and on which she does not appear.
Q25) In your
discographies,
why do you mention, "track times are not listed"?
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A25) This is really a reminder to you, the recording artist, that
some extremely important information was accidentally omitted when you
created your CD package. Without track times, DJ's cannot plan the timing
of their show. Unless you are well known to the DJ, or there is some
other powerful reason the DJ wants to put your CD on the air, it is a rare
DJ who will sit down and take the extra time to mount a new CD and write
down on a slip of paper or in the liner notes, the missing track times.
In the days of LP's and cassettes, the DJ had to sit with a stop watch and
play the entire album or just the track(s) they wanted to air. Except as
noted above, a new CD without track times will NOT! be played on the air.
Therefore, don't waste your money shipping your new CD to a radio station
if you don't include track times.
Added note: Rich Warren, host of
"The Midnight Special"
on WFMT in Chicago, IL since 1982, gave a seminar at the
FARM Conference
held in Lake Geneva, WI on 10/24-26/2003. He stated that about 30% of
CD's received at radio stations without track times are discarded without
ever being listened to! If you really want your CD to spend eternity in a
local landfill, then don't bother including track times on any of your
releases.
Q26) How many musical artists and groups
do you list on your entire Web site?
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A26) Over 13,000 at the latest approximate count (5-12-2005),
including over 8,000 Folk musicians, and
(as of 12-04-2007) over
5,800 Wisconsin musicians
in every known genre of music.
Q27) What kind of "Artists" are listed on your
Web site?
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A27) Almost every use of the terms "artist" and
"artists" on this entire domain refers to "musical artists"
and/or "performing artists". Except for the
Oshkosh Northwestern Artist of the Week
there are no other links or information of
any kind about physical artists or graphical artists, i.e. no painters, no
sculptors, artisans, and nothing related to them. If there are any other
exceptions to this among the
13,000+
musicians and musical groups listed here, I am not aware of them.
Please write
if you find such a name here, and I will create an exception list. There
is one amateur architect/sculptor/builder here, Alex Jordan, Jr. because
he created "The House on the Rock" in Spring Green, WI, and designed many
of the
Music Machines there.
Q28) Why don't you link to MySpace pages?
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A28) Mainly because of "Friends". MySpace pages almost always either
crash my browser, crash my computer itself, or drop my dialup connection.
But that is my problem. Because of the many! graphics installed by
"Friends", pages take between two and ten minutes to load via dialup. But
primarily I don't because of the many K-12 students that visit my site
every day. I have yet to see a MySpace page for a musician that was
appropriate to display projected on a screen in a fifth grade classroom.
"Friends" can be counted on to install either profanity or other "adults
only content" on their musician's page entry, which is unnacceptable.
"Friends" cannot be counted upon to post 100% G-Rated comments, 100% of
the time. I would only link to a MySpace page where all "Friends" entries
have been moved to somewhere other than the musician's main page, AND
"Friends" are not allowed to post on the main page. I have yet to see one
like that.
3-09-2007 Update: A recent local newspaper article brought this point
home clearly. It told the story of someone who died and "Friends" were
leaving condolences on their MySpace page. In response to family members
who wanted the page deleted, myspace.com replied it could not, without the
original owner's written permission! This proves that "Friends" are in
complete control of what they initially post. The X-Rated "Friends"
content on MySpace pages is there because the MySpace page owner
specifically chooses to leave it there!
Q29) How much recording session data do you
include in your discographies, dates, times, take numbers, etc.?
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A29) None. Never in my life have I ever seen a record label's or
recording studio's "recording ledger". I have no clue what one looks
like. My data is strictly from the actual, physical, officially released
recordings themselves. If the liner notes state, "recorded at (studio
name)", "recorded at (concert/festival name)", or "recorded on (date)", I
include that, but otherwise I have no source information about when or
where any song or album was recorded. So if a song or even an entire
album was recorded in the studio, but never released, I have no
information of any kind about it.
All dates at this site are in either mm-dd-yy or mm-dd-yyyy format.
Q99) What is the significance of the 10-11-1991
date mentioned in my
Musician's Birthdays/Bibliography Copyright Notice?
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A99) UW Oshkosh got connected to the Internet sometime in the summer
of 1991. 10-11-1991 was the day I discovered the
UW-Parkside (UWP) Internet Music Archives.
That day changed my life. I found the discography
of one of my favorite musicians which listed some of the album titles I
had and many I didn't. I wrote the author but he had no plans on adding
track titles to his file like some of the other Archives discographies
had. So I thought, what the heck, I would create a discography which had
detailed information I was interested in, and hoped others might be also.
My first effort was a list of 21 different
Folk Music Collections
albums I had, which was submitted to Dave Datta, creator of the Archives,
on 11-30-1991. Doing that one discography was fun, so I created a few
more. I guess I got a bit carried away, because by
January 1995
there were discographies for over
60 other different artists and groups
I had submitted to the Archives. If I had never found Dave Datta's
"Music Archives", the "FolkLib Index" might never have existed.
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