FolkLib Index - Search this site

          Effective 10-10-1999, thanks to Atomz.com, it is now possible to search a selected set of 499 pages of the FolkLib Index. This site search service is free to sites with 750 or fewer pages.

          Search this site with FreeFind - added 04-15-2001
          Search the entire Web with Google Safe Search - added 10-28-2001
          Search this site with Alexa - added 09-24-2005
          Other: Search MusiCal - Search The Ultimate Band List (UBL)
          Other known musical sites which use the Atomz.com search service.

There are NO lyrics at this site

How to Search this site using the Atomz.com search service:

1. Enter your search word or words in the box above

   Hint 1: Use quotation marks when you are looking for a musican's name or words that must appear together, otherwise you will get scores or hundreds of occurrences of each individual word.
             "folk alliance"
   Hint 2: Use all lower case letters. Using capital (upper case) letters will restrict results to exact case matches only.
   Hint 3: Due to the design of this site, where many individuals are listed as "lastname, firstname", to find all possible occurrences of a musician's name, you will need to enter the name as follows, including the quotation marks:
             "joan baez" "baez joan"
   Hint 4: You don't need to do this for a group. Just enter:
             cornerstone
             "harmonious wail"
   Hint 5: Excluded words: in order to make the search index smaller and faster, the following words are NOT indexed: "a", "the". Do not include them in your search string.
   Hint 6: Misspelled words: I have gathered a list of misspelled names and words and put them on a separate page with the correct spelling - Misspelled words searched for. Also - lyrics searched for in vain.
   Hint 7: Diacritical marks: Remove all accent marks, umlauts, tildes, smart quotes, etc. from your search term. If a character and the letter it modifies does not appear on a specific key on a standard American English PC keyboard, it does not exist anywhere on this Web site. All such marks in names and places are removed before they are installed here. For example, searching for a musician named "linée" will ALWAYS fail, unless you change it to "linee".

2. Click the "Search" button
             or
   Lynx users: Press the down arrow to highlight the "Search" button, and then press Enter

• For other searching help and hints, see Atomz.com's Search Tips

            Updates are only made once a week, late Sunday night. Important: there are song titles in my discographies, but there are NO lyrics at this site. (My discographies still only available in the UW-Parkside Music Archives ftp mirror are not indexed or searchable here.) When What's New? changes, you will know all other updates for the week have been installed. This site will be re-indexed for searching purposes within 15 minutes after What's New? changes.

Other known musical sites which use the Atomz.com search service:

• folkmusic.org (Alan Rowoth)
• Alan Rowoth's Home Page
• Lou and Peter Berryman / Whither Zither archives
• Bluegrass West Website Search Page
• Exile Books & Music
• Florian Bodenseher's pages for Gordon Lightfoot
• Jay Glicksman's Folk Music Home Page / Advanced Search
• Guitar Vista - the Classical Guitar Web Portal (Marty Ratcliff)
• Hit Country Lyrics
• WFMT (98.7 Chicago) - The Midnight Special ( Rich Warren)
            WFMT stopped their 24/7 web stream, but the syndicated version of just "The Midnight Special" can be heard at various times of the week on a number of Affiliated Stations.

            Music Audio sites:

• McSquared System Design Group
• Please write if you know of any other musical sites which use the Atomz.com Search Service.

Thank you so very much Atomz.com for providing this free service to sites with 750 or fewer pages.

          "Powered by Atomz.com" And once more, there are NO lyrics at this site.

Searches that must be used separately because the entire 650+ pages at this domain cannot be searched in a single search.
          Search on-site discographies only for artist names, group names, album titles or song titles.
          Search UW Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Illinois, and other non-music related pages
          Search all Dr. Gerry Grzyb's "The Christmas Show" pages
          Search all First Congregational Church, Oshkosh, WI pages (both on-site and off-site)
          Search all Wisconsin Federation of Stamp Clubs (WFSC) pages (off-site)
          Search all other pages at this domain not listed above
          Search the entire FolkLib domain with Google (may not include most recently updated or newly added pages)

Other known musical sites which use the FreeFind search service:

• home page of Alan Ng
• Please write if you know of any other musical sites which use the FreeFind Search Service.

          Just curious ... which search do you prefer, Atomz.com or FreeFind?

Features	Atomz.com	FreeFind
maximum number of pages allowed for FREE indexing	500	about 3000
string search "word1 word2", words must appear together in the order specified	yes	no
after a re-index, reports broken links from one page at your site to another	yes	no
generates a site map page	no	yes
generates a what's new page if the file's last modified date is accessible on your server	no	yes
reports words/phrases searched for	all	top 50 only
stores the index database at their site, not yours	yes	yes
other features	Atomz.com	FreeFind

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