FolkLib Index - What's New?

This page lists major changes, if any, made to the Index and installed during each site update date listed. An exception to the general site rule that all links in bold go off-site, bold links on this page indicate newly created FolkLib Index pages first installed on a particular date. All other links on this page, whether on-site or off-site are not bolded.

I'm just curious ... is there anyone anywhere in the world that actually reads this "What's New?" page? This is the closest thing to a "weblog" or "blog" this Web site will probably ever have.
05-15-2007: How interesting ... the above request has been here since Nov. 2005 and not one single person in the entire world has admitted to me that they have looked at this page at any time since then. What is the point of my updating this page at all?
08-16-2008: Wow, somebody wrote that they actually look at this page regularly. So there's at least one out of several billion people on Earth that do.

Environmental Log - What I am doing to save gas and cut back on polluting the planet. What are you doing?

.11-25-2008: Trivia, the Folk Library Index is 13 years old today!
.10-20-2008: Added Wisconsin Handbell Choirs.
.10-12-2008: Added An Inconvenient Truth: Closing Credits .
.09-30-2008: Added House on the Rock Pictures .
.09-18-2008: Added Venue History: TruBlu Lounge, Fond du Lac .
.09-01-2008: Added Wisconsin Composers .
.08-10-2008: Added Bill Miller Discography .
.07-28-2008: Added Wisconsin Churches Discography .
.07-23-2008: Added Wisconsin Folk Discography . This is a new file which includes every album title that used to be listed at wi_discog.shtml (Wisconsin Discographies).
.07-11-2008: Added Cuca Records (Missing) Discography .
.06-24-2008: Added Various Wisconsin Labels (45's) Discography, Blue Eagle (45's) Discography .
.06-20-2008: Added KL Records (45's) Discography .
.05-20-2008: Added Wisconsin UW Oshkosh Graduate Musicians .
.05-09-2008: Added WAMI Album of the Year Awards .
.05-08-2008: Added WAMI Song of the Year Awards .
.05-07-2008: Added WAMI Jazz Awards .
.05-05-2008: Added WAMI Awards Show Presenters .
.05-04-2008: Added WAMI Polka Awards .
.05-03-2008: Added WAMI Award Nominees & Winners (A Combined list of all Artists/Groups on all Genre pages) .
.05-01-2008: Added Unanswered questions about the WAMI Awards and its Award Shows .
.04-27-2008: Added 2007 WAMI Award Nominees & Winners, 2008 WAMI Award Nominees & Winners .
.04-24-2008: Added Wisconsin Heavy Metal Musicians .
.04-22-2008: Added Venue History: Concert Logs of Wisconsin Music Venues, Venue History: First Tuesdays at FCC, Oshkosh, Venue History: Live at Lunch at Grand Opera House Square, Oshkosh, Venue History: Live at Lunch at Mi-Taza Coffeehouse, UW Oshkosh .
.04-19-2008: Added WAMI Boards of Directors .
.04-10-2008: Added Bibliography: Folkscene, Bibliography: Inside Bluegrass, Bibliography: The Jongleur, Bibliography: Musician, Bibliography: Tell it Like it is, Bibliography: The Valley Scene / The Scene .
.02-27-2008: Added Article: Leaders take a journey through the years .
.02-21-2008: Added Article: Railroad Ron has musical milestone .
.01-29-2008: Added Wisconsin Country Recordings Documented in Print, Wisconsin Folk Recordings Documented in Print, Wisconsin Jazz Recordings Documented in Print, Wisconsin Native Recordings Documented in Print, Wisconsin Polka Recordings Documented in Print, Wisconsin Pop/Rock Recordings Documented in Print .
.01-27-2008: Added Jazz and Big Band Bibliography .
.01-24-2008: Added Wisconsin Blues Recordings Documented in Print .
.01-23-2008: Added Wisconsin Big Band Recordings Documented in Print, Wisconsin Bluegrass Recordings Documented in Print .
.01-10-2008: Added Wisconsin Recordings Documented in Print .
.12-28-2007: In order to simplify searching, changed all occurrences of "H.S." to "High School", and all occurrences of its being implied to its being specifically stated, e.g. changed "Oshkosh North Madrigal Singers" to "Oshkosh North High School Madrigal Singers". Also, all occurrences of "Lourdes Academy" were changed to "Lourdes High School".
.12-27-2007: Added Index for "Classic Guitar, Lute and Vihuela Discography" by Ronald C. Purcell, Index for "Famous Wisconsin ..." Series by Badger Books .
.12-17-2007: Added Daniel Hecht Discography .
.12-12-2007: Added "Wisconsin Discography" - Name Index - by school (High Schools K9-12) .
.12-06-2007: Added "Wisconsin Discography" - Name Index - by school (Colleges & Universities) .
.12-04-2007: Added Wisconsin Punk Rock Musicians, Sub-genre pages of Wisconsin Pop/Rock: Help Wanted, Article: Apple Blossom Books slated to open next month downtown.
.11-25-2007: Trivia, the Folk Library Index is 12 years old today!
.10-22-2007: Added Domain Alphabetization Rules .
.10-21-2007: Added Opera Bibliography .
.10-20-2007: Added Opera Singer Index .
.10-10-2007: Added Afghan Press Discography (Wisconsin Composers only) .
.09-24-2007: Added GoGirlsMusicFest Discography .
.09-20-2007: A great big THANK YOU!! to http://www.websitegrader.com/ for evaluating my site and FINALLY telling me exactly how to invalidate the link of those people who I have asked to consistently link to me at "http://www.folklib.net/", and NOT "http://folklib.net/", but who have refused to change their link. Because of the resulting confusion to Search Engines, an indexing problem called "link fragmentation" occurs. Search Engines, like Google, think they are two different sites instead of the same site. Website Grader considers it an ERROR if they find indexed links to otherwise identical URL's both with and without the "www." They pointed out that this error can be corrected by installing what they call a "permanent 301 redirect". I have just done so, and everyone who clicks on what I personally feel is an incorrectly installed link, "http://folklib.net/", will now be automatically redirected to "http://www.folklib.net/". Yippee!
.08-21-2007: Added Irish Fest: 1981-1985 Performers, Irish Fest: 1986-1990 Performers, Irish Fest: 1991-1995 Performers, Irish Fest: 1996-1999 Performers, Irish Fest: 2004 Performers, Irish Fest: 2005 Performers, Irish Fest: 2006 Performers, Missing Liner Notes Information.
.07-12-2007: Connected to Time Warner Cable's "Roadrunner", after a frustrating year of Dial-Up Service from Milwaukee PC, getting my Internet connection dropped twice a day on average. I bought a DSL Modem from Milwaukee PC and paid them a year in advance for AT&T DSL Service, but their Modem never connected to the Internet for even a single second, so I could only connect via their Dial-Up for the past year. AT&T on-site repairmen do not exist. If your DSL problem cannot be fixed by AT&T over the phone, you're screwed! AT&T and Milwaukee PC had my money so why should they give a damn whether their DSL modem ever worked or not? On 06-27-2007 I paid Milwaukee PC for a second year of Dial-Up Service, but their service crashed that night and never came back up. Milwaukee PC cashed my check and kept my payment, but neglected to tell me their Dial-Up Service had been permanently discontinued. Screwed again! Two strikes and Milwaukee PC is OUT, and Roadrunner is IN.
.05-22-2007: Added Doug Henkle's Environmental Log .
.04-27-2007: Added Bibliography: Weekend - Fond du Lac (was Go!).
.04-24-2007: Added Bibliography: Weekend - Appleton (was Encore).
.04-11-2007: Added Bibliography: Maximum Ink.
.03-31-2007: Added Venue History: Amherst Coffee Co., Venue History: Between the Pages, Venue History: Ecotopia, Venue History: Foxley's, Venue History: Jensen Theater, Venue History: Kaukauna Coffee & Tea, Venue History: St. Brendan's Irish Pub, Venue History: Thrasher Opera House, Venue History: Trilogy Pizza, Venue History: Wolf River Theater, .
.03-09-2007: Removed top-of-the-page information on this site which listed serious site problems, in chronological order: 12-15-2005 and 06-12-2006. Unfortunately, these problems significantly affected how this site is now updated. The original concept since 1995 of uploading at one time all pages updated since a specific date is no longer possible at this time, or for the forseeable future. From this point forward, until futher notice, pages will be updated individually as needed, and as noted by the "(last updated .mm-dd-yyyy)" note at the top of every page.
A number of new pages have been installed since 12-15-2005 which were not listed here until now.
03-27-2006 Wisconsin Soul Discography
03-27-2006 Wisconsin R&B (Rhythm & Blues) Musicians
03-27-2006 Wisconsin R&B Discography
04-28-2006 Wisconsin Hip hop Musicians
04-28-2006 WAMI Website Awards
05-02-2006 WAMI Award Categories
05-02-2006 1996 WAMI Award Nominees (Winners unknown)
05-04-2006 WAMI Hall of Fame Biographies
05-06-2006 1997 WAMI Award Nominees (Winners unknown)
05-28-2006 WAMI Awards Show Programs (scans, long load)
05-31-2006 2004 WAMI Award Nominees & Winners
05-31-2006 2005 WAMI Award Nominees & Winners
05-31-2006 2006 WAMI Award Nominees & Winners
06-01-2006 2003 WAMI Award Nominees & Winners
06-08-2006 Past Wisconsin Music Festivals (2004)
06-08-2006 Past Wisconsin Music Festivals (2005)
06-08-2006 Past Wisconsin Music Festivals (2006)
07-30-2006 Wisconsin Radio Discography
08-06-2006 Desiderata
10-23-2006 House on the Rock Discography
10-23-2006 House on the Rock Music Machines
11-01-2006 WAMI Producer Awards
11-17-2006 1998 WAMI Award Nominees & Winners
11-17-2006 1999 WAMI Award Nominees & Winners
11-18-2006 2000 WAMI Award Nominees & Winners
12-10-2006 Getting Published Bibliography
Dates unknown
Wisconsin Concertina Players
Wisconsin Gospel / Contemporary Christian Musicians
Wisconsin Solo Guitarists
.02-25-2007: Due to requests, re-ordered and changed the Domain Site Map, replacing the URL text with each page's actual title. In case you prefer the old version, which will no longer be maintained, here is the only link to it. However, as of 05-15-2007, this changeover process is not complete. See the bottom of the page (#480 or so, on) for what it will eventually all look like.
.11-25-2006: Trivia, the Folk Library Index is 11 years old today!
.09-05-2006: Changed all Mike Moroney's KiwiFolk links from "http://www.kiwifolk.org.nz/" to "http://www.kiwifolk.com/".
Changed all Minnesota Public Radio links from "http://www.mpr.org/" to "http://minnesota.publicradio.org/".
.08-07-2006: Vacation -- 8/07-12/2006, no computer or E-Mail access for 6 days. I was in New York City. The highlight of the trip for me was the Iridium Jazz Club and seeing Les Paul for the first time! 91 years old and still playing two 1-1/2 hour sets every Monday night, year 'round, simply AMAZING! Icing on the cake was one guest artist that night, also seen for the first time in person, Muriel Anderson! A few memorable pictures of that night can be seen at, Les Paul.
.09-05-2006: Changed all Mike Moroney's KiwiFolk links from "http://www.kiwifolk.org.nz/" to "http://www.kiwifolk.com/".
Changed all Minnesota Public Radio links from "http://www.mpr.org/" to "http://minnesota.publicradio.org/".
.08-07-2006: Vacation -- 8/07-12/2006, no computer or E-Mail access for 6 days. I was in New York City. The highlight of the trip for me was the Iridium Jazz Club and seeing Les Paul for the first time! 91 years old and still playing two 1-1/2 hour sets every Monday night, year 'round, simply AMAZING! Icing on the cake was one guest artist that night, also seen for the first time in person, Muriel Anderson! A few memorable pictures of that night can be seen at, Les Paul.
.06-12-2006: Now that I finally have a VMS editing account again, why will it take awhile before I can resume installing updates to the Web site? I did a double backup of all source files (aka web pages) in my old VMS account. Neither of those backup copies have been changed since. However, I have been using a UNIX text editor to manually edit pages live on the Web site since the backup and my old account was deleted. Thus my source files and what is on the Web site are now grossly out of sync. I have to find every page changed on the Web site since 12-05-2005, download each one to my new account, compare each one with its original matching source file, and install the Web site changes in the source files. There may be as many as 700 pages that have to be re-synced like this, one by one, before I can resume normal editing and installation of updated source files. I don't know how long this will take, but it may be a month or more.
The Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, pronounced "deck") created the VMS Operating System that ran on thousands of its VAX, MicroVAX and Alpha Servers and Workstations in the 1980's and 1990's. As Digital was bought out by Compaq, which in turn was bought out by HP, VMS was phased out and replaced by Micro$oft Windows at the corporate level, but it remains in continuing demand at the user level.
My new account is at http://eisner.decus.org/, an entire Web site and organization devoted exclusively to a large community of VMS users! In the 1980's, it started out as DECUS (DEC User's Society), evolved into Encompass, but is now a separate organization no longer with any direct corporate support. It is fully supported by volunteers and donations. Associating myself with an organization like this, it is unlikely that I will ever lose my VMS editing account again.
.12-15-2005: All editing of this Web site stops today. Anybody out there know of an Internet Provider who has OpenVMS login accounts? I would require one that will agree to a multiple year contract not to shut down their Server. My current provider decommissions and powers off their Server today, and I can find no other company that has such accounts. I have also tried HP in hopes of buying an Alpha WorkStation running OpenVMS, but they seem to have stopped selling them. I will continue to pay my domain and hosting bills as long as I live so the entire site stays just as it is today, but it looks like it may be several months or years before this Web site can be updated again.
.12-03-2005: Retitled the old original "Periodical Index" to Folk Music Periodicals; and added a new Periodical Index;
Added another page to the list of Periodical Bibliographies: "Performing Songwriter", bib_ps.shtml and Bibliography: Performing Songwriter (features); Added Eddy Hanson 1970 Flyer - Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra Members (2002) - George F. Johnston Discography - Oshkosh, WI Musician Obituaries;
Added Wisconsin labels - Cuca Records (Albums) Discography - HG Records (Albums) Discography - KL Records (Albums) Discography - North Star Appli. Records (Albums) Discography - Polkaland Records (Albums) Discography;
Added Musician's Birthdays: (sorted by birth date yr/mo/da) / (sorted by death date yr/mo/da);
Added Music Books: Oshkosh Area Library Bibliographies including: my personal library - Appleton Public Library - Fond du Lac Public Library - Forrest R. Polk Library (UW Oshkosh) - Menasha Public Library - Oshkosh Public Library - Mills Music Library (Madison).
.11-25-2005: Trivia, the Folk Library Index is TEN years old today!
.11-04-2005: Added Wisconsin labels, Cuca Records (KTV Series) Discography - East Town Association Discography - Stellar Records / Janet Planet Discography and Affiliates - Wisconsin Opera Singers - Wisconsin Spoken Word Artists - Wisconsin Spoken Word Discography.
.10-24-2005: Sorry, too busy doing other things, no site update at this time. The next one will be around November 1st.
.09-27-2005: Changed all 1-800-PRIME-CD links from "http://www.primecd.com/" to "http://www.fiftyfiftymusic.com/";
Deleted all "Rolling Stone Magazine" links like "http://rollingstone.tunes.com/" as the site has disappeared;
Changed all Manfred Helfert's "Bob Dylan's Musical Roots" links from "http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/elstongunn/" to "http://www.bobdylanroots.com/".
.09-14-2005: Added another non-music related page, Highland Park High School (IL), Class of 1959 (all my fellow High School graduates), and on 09-27-2005, Class of 1957.
.09-02-2005: Moved all anonymous artists to a anew page Wisconsin Session Players (anonymous, unknown birth names)
.08-09-2005: Added The Folk File: A Folkie's Dictionary by Bill Markwick (a set of 28 new pages).
.08-06-2005: Added Wisconsin Soul Musicians and WAMI R&B (Nominees and Winners);
Changed all Ake Holm's "Harry Belafonte" links from "http://w1.871.telia.com/~u87125666/*", "http://w1.871.telia.com/~u87125994/*" and "http://w1.871.telia.com/~u87125995/*" to "http://www.akh.se/harbel/*";
Changed all Grassroots Concerts links from "http://www.uslink.com/~bradshaw/" to "http://www.grassrootsconcerts.org/".
.07-15-2005: Added an important historical non-music related page, How to Speak 'Scansin;
Moved the Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Site Map page from "http://www.folklib.net/index/bg_site_map.shtml" to http://www.folklib.net/bg_site_map.shtml so the shortened URL will no longer be truncated and made inaccessible when printed in some magazines.
.06-24-2005: Added New band listing questions I would like answered when you request your band be added here.
The Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra now has a Web site of its own by a different unidentified Webmaster. The pages maintained here "temporarily" (actually for 4 years, 3-28-2001 - 6-24-2005), have been updated with links to the new OSO Web site. As Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra historical information (available only at this site) is copied by the new Webmaster and installed (complete with its current recording artist links) permanently on the new site, it will be removed from this site. The only information that will remain here permanently will be my Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra Discography. After all information on one of my OSO pages has been completely moved to the new Web site, that page will remain here linking to the new permanent location of that information.
.06-02-2005: Added a minimally music-related page, "Oshkosh Northwestern" Artist of the Week;
Changed all Claude Calteux's "The Folk Pages" links from "http://club.euronet.be/claude.calteux/" and "http://club.ib.be/claude.calteux/" to "http://home.tiscali.be/claude.calteux/".
.05-12-2005: Added Irish Fest: Past Performers Index, and the Irish Fest musical performer lists for 2000, 2001 and 2002.
Added a text-to-HTML conversion Kennedy-Rose Discography;
.04-23-2005: To further cut down on the size of wi_discog.shtml and wisconsin.shtml, added Sally Barris Discography - Giles Clark Discography - Tracy Jane Comer Discography - Marianne Flemming Discography - Bucky Halker Discography - Judy Henske Discography - Michael Jerling Discography - Patty Larkin Discography - Arlo Leach Discography - Tom Pease Discography - Claudia Schmidt Discography - Stuart Stotts Discography - Dorothy Zerbe Discography.
Finally! A pre-book project in progress since July 2002 is now complete. Every Wisconsin Non-Folk Musician has been moved to genre-specific pages.
I apologize if I have broken your links to specific artists at my site, or will be breaking them sometime in the future. As explained in my FAQ, artist and group anchor tags are in the process of being "unique"ized, not only for Wisconsin artists, but throughout all of my Folk Music pages. Most artist/group anchor tags in all capital letters, like KINGST, GUARDD and REYNN, will probably be changed in the next year or so, to tags like KingstonT, Guard,Dv or Reynolds,Nk. When I began creating this site in January 1995 I could not foresee ever listing over 12,000 artists and groups and that I should have used site-wide unique anchors since the very beginning. If your link doesn't work, "Show HTML Source" for the changed anchor tag, or please write and I will be glad to help you fix your link to me.
.04-03-2005: Added FolkLib Song Index: Songs - FolkLib Song Index: Albums - Snapshotmusic.com Discography - Wisconsin Polka Hall of Fame Boards.
.03-12-2005: Added Wisconsin World Folk Musicians - Wisconsin World Folk Discography;
Changed all eduScapes/42eXplore links from "http://www.eduscapes.com/42explore/folkmusic.htm" to "http://www.42explore.com/folkmusic.htm". Changed all of Tom Brusky's links from "www.milwaukeepolkamusic.com" to "www.wisconsinpolkamusic.com".
.02-11-2005: Added another page to the list of Periodical Bibliographies: "Oshkosh Magazine", bib_oshm.shtml.
.01-22-2005: Added Wisconsin Artist/Group Master Name Index, which supersedes the "Wisconsin Discography" Name Index page, and Where can I buy your book? (over a year and a half premature, but somebody really asked);
Changed all "Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music" links from "http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/" to "http://www.ectoguide.org/" and their artist page links from "http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/guide.cgi?alpha/?/lastname.firstname" to "http://www.ectoguide.org/alpha/?/lastname.firstname".
.12-26-2004: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Added Wisconsin Composer MorningStar Discography. For those who might be interested, this site update was delayed due to my switching servers from my old UW Oshkosh VMS account, where I had been maintaining this Web site since 1995 on my own time before retirement (and full time since then), to a VMS account at DLS Internet Services (www.dls.net).
.11-30-2004: Deleted all of Randy Haugen's "Blues-Link", "http://www.blues-link.com/" links because since sometime before Aug. 2000, all links to it have been re-directed to dmoz.org.
.11-25-2004: Happy Thanksgiving! Trivia, the Folk Library Index is nine years old today.
.11-09-2004: Added a text-to-HTML conversion Harvey Reid Discography;
Changed all "Common Times" magazine and Chris McIntosh's "Cyberfolk" column links from "http://shark.dls.net/~chrismac/" to "http://user.dls.net/~chrismac/";
Changed all Don Shorock's Walnut Valley Festival artist links from "http://www.wvfest.com/archives/plethora.html" to "http://www.wvfest.com/performers/".
.10-19-2004: Added Martha Trachtenberg Discography - Paula Joy Welter Discography - Single Musician Bibliography
Added WAMI Site Map - WAMI Award Show: Past Performers - WAMI Links, and WAMI Nominees and Winners by Category: Country - Folk - Stage Production - Studio.
.09-28-2004: Added Wisconsin Luthiers - Wisconsin Music Business Cards - Wisconsin Solo Pianists - Wisconsin Solo Pianists Discography.
.09-23-2004: Added Steve Young Band Current Schedule / Past Schedule. No other site updates were made today.
.09-14-2004: Added WPR: Wisconsin Artists on 'Simply Folk' (listed by name);
.08-31-2004: Added Wisconsin Irish Fest Artists, and moved all links for these artists/groups in wisconsin.shtml to the new page;
Added WPR: Wisconsin Artists on 'Simply Folk' (listed by date);
Changed all Folk Alliance links from "http://www.folk.org/" to "http://www.folkalliance.net/".
.08-16-2004: Added text-to-HTML conversion, Art Garfunkel Discography;
Changed all of Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen's "Compass Rose Music" links from "http://www.sover.net/~gillette/" to "http://www.compassrosemusic.com/"; Changed all of Richard Hess' links from "http://www.mindspring.com/~rlhess/" to "http://www.richardhess.com/".
.07-27-2004: Added Wisconsin Polka Collections Discography; The many!! changes and added internal cross reference links for the Wisconsin Music Festivals pages required a full site update, so the scheduled 08-01-2004 update was done early.
.07-18-2004: Added Wisconsin Choirs and Choruses Discography - Wisconsin Music Festivals by Name; Added Wisconsin Dance Groups, and moved all links for these groups in wisconsin.shtml to the new page;
.07-05-2004: Deleted all of Larry & Lynn's old "Beedle Um Bum" links, http://www.best.com/~folkbird/beedle.um.bum/, because their new site, "http://www.folkbird.net/music/" has not been updated since July 2002.
Added Wisconsin Solo Organists - Wisconsin Solo Organists Discography.
.06-20-2004: Added text-to-HTML conversions, Folk Music Collections - Folk Music Collections Sorted - Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Collections - New Age Music Collections - Miscellaneous Collections;
Added State Index - FolkLib Index related articles - ARSC Newsletter article - Oshkosh Northwestern article;
Added Wisconsin Choirs and Choruses, and moved all links for these groups in wisconsin.shtml to the new page;
Added Wisconsin Music Stores by City, moved all information to the new page, and updated all old "wi_music.shtml#STORES" links.
.06-10-2004: Added WAMI Hall of Fame; Added Other lists of Wisconsin Artists, and moved all links for these Web sites at the old "wisconsin.shtml#N-OTHERS" location to the new page;
Added Wisconsin Big Bands, and moved all links for these groups in wisconsin.shtml to the new page.
.05-18-2004: The site update scheduled for 05-23-2004 had to be done early due to the move to a new server. Many, many thanks go to Mark Martin and John Bowman for their considerable computer expertise and assistance with the transfer of the entire FolkLib Index from westhost.com to Transmutagen Web Hosting in less than six days. The last move from ExecPC to WestHost took me almost a month.
.05-09-2004
.04-22-2004: Effectively immediately, and until my book is completed sometime in 2006, I will only be making a full site upload of changes every four weeks, instead of weekly. This will give me more time for research and writing the book.
.04-11-2004
.04-04-2004: Added WPR: Simply Folk Playlists (Menu for Non-JavaScript Browsers).
.03-28-2004: Added Wisconsin Concert/Community/Marching Bands, and moved all links for these groups in wisconsin.shtml to the new page; Added Wisconsin Concert/Community/Marching Band Discography, and moved all discographies for these groups in wi_discog.shtml to the new page;
Added bibliog5.shtml (by title and date) which contains the same books as my other bibliography pages but in a different order;
Reformatted many "ABC... Artist Selection" menus so they would not wrap on Palm devices like my Tungsten E. For example, Wisconsin Menu.
.03-14-2004
.03-07-2004: Added Wisconsin Conservatory of Music Faculty, WCM Guitar Students.
.03-01-2004: Moved all the Wisconsin Music Festivals pages:
wi/wi_clearinghouse.shtml TO fest/
wi/wi_ch_bycity.shtml TO fest/wi_ch_bycity.shtml
wi/wi_ch_bygenre.shtml TO fest/wi_ch_bygenre.shtml
wi/wi_ch_festivals.shtml TO fest/wi_ch_festivals.shtml
I apologize for the fact that my entire site went off-line sometime Friday night. For the first time since April 2000 when I decided to leave ExecPC, got my own domain and a new Web hosting firm to host it, I exceeded my 6 Gig Transfer Rate quota for the month. My Web host, westhost.com, sent me a message on Saturday morning that my quota was at 90% and that I needed to upgrade my account to a different one with a higher quota. Unfortunately, they decided to hold off sending the 90% message until my quota had reached 111%, after they had completely disabled my Web site without warning on Friday night. A firm that really cared about their customers would have automatically upgraded my account, notified me of what they did, and told me that the deposit I had already paid would be a for a shorter time. I wouldn't have minded it at all if they has done this in the interest of keeping my Web site up. However, WestHost decided it was better to hold my Web site for ransom until I paid them more money. The previous transfer rate usage high since last September was 4.1 Gig, not even close to my 6 Gig quota. The entire problem was caused by a single visitor, "email4.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com", which visited my site 46,270 times in February, 42,333 visits of which were to a single page, "wi_bg_bands.shtml"!! WestHost could have considered this gross over usage as only an aberration not my fault, and not punished me with a rate increase due to just one visitor. But they decided to ignore this fact. This was not the only time just since last September that they screwed me.
I am looking for a new Web hosting firm. ... Effective 05-18-2004 I found a new Web hosting firm and moved the FolkLib Index to their server.
.02-22-2004: Added Wisconsin label discography: Madison Songwriters Group; Deleted all links for "http://www.liveconcerts.com/", as the site is no longer accessible by all browsers.
.02-15-2004: Added Wisconsin Acoustic Blues Musicians wis_blues_a.shtml, and moved all links for these artists/groups in wisconsin.shtml to the new page; Moved "wis_blues.shtml" to wis_blues_e.shtml;
Added Wisconsin Music Festivals by City - Wisconsin Music Festivals by Genre.
.02-08-2004: Added Past Wisconsin Music Festivals - Wisconsin Non-Performers.
.02-01-2004
.01-28-2004: Added Wisconsin Live Music Clearinghouse (the only update to the site today).
.01-25-2004: Changed all Gene Wilburn's "Northern Journey Online" links from "http://www.interlog.com/~njo/" to "http://www.northernjourney.com/".
.01-18-2004: Added Wisconsin Harp Musicians, and moved all links for these artists/groups in wisconsin.shtml to the new page; Added Wisconsin Harp Discography, and moved all discographies for these artists/groups in wi_discog.shtml and irish2_fest.shtml to the new page.
.01-11-2004: Added Ashland County, Wisconsin Musicians (obs. 8-03-2008) - Bayfield County, Wisconsin Musicians (obs. 8-14-2008), and moved all links for these artists/groups in wisconsin.shtml to the new pages; Added Ashland County, Wisconsin Discography (obs. 8-03-2008) - Bayfield County, Wisconsin Discography (obs. 8-14-2008), and moved all discographies for these artists/groups in wi_discog.shtml to the new pages.
Added a Search just Discography pages lookup to the On-Site Discographies page.
.01-04-2004: Added Wisconsin Harp Collections, and moved all the Various Artists Collections album track lists from Kim Robertson's Discography to the new page.
.12-28-2003: Added Wisconsin Church Musicians and Wisconsin School Musicians - as I have time all the links for these artists/groups in wisconsin.shtml will be moved to the new pages.
In order to cut down on the size of the Wisconsin Concerts and Venues by City page, moved all off site non-city links to a new page, Concert and Venue Sites with Wisconsin pages.
.12-21-2003
.12-14-2003: Added Appleton, Wisconsin Musicians, and moved all links for these artists/groups in wisconsin.shtml to the new page.
Deleted all Sonic Net Artist Sites links, "http://www.sonicnet.com/", because the entire site is now part of the VH1 site.
.12-07-2003
.11-30-2003
.11-25-2003: Trivia, the Folk Library Index is eight years old today.
.11-23-2003: Be sure to check out and subscribe to Terry Corr's new Midwest Folk magazine featuring full length interviews of IL/IA/MI/WI (so far) acoustic recording artists. "Support your local music"!
.11-16-2003: As work has progressed on the book, over 400 names have been added to the Wisconsin Session Players page just since October 1st. As that page was 164 K in size with 1,080 names at the last update, its load time became too slow for such a frequently accessed page. The page has been broken up into wis_session_ac.shtml for letters A,B,C, and seven other similar pages for letters D,E,F - G,H,I - J,K,L - M,N,O - P,Q,R - S,T,U - V,W,X,Y,Z and anonymous. The internal cross reference (anchor) links have been changed for every artist on the Session Players page, as well as most of the internal links on their Session Work Discography page.
.10-23-2003: There will be no updates this weekend. I will be at the Folk Alliance Regional Midwest conference in Lake Geneva, WI all weekend.
.10-19-2003
.10-15-2003: Milestone announcement: It took almost eight years of growth since its being installed on-line on 11-25-1995, but, according to the Atomz indexing feature, the Folk Library Index now contains over 1,000,000 unique words.
.10-12-2003: Added discography Wisconsin City (School/Church releases by city).
.10-05-2003: Added Wisconsin discographies Steve Rosenberg, Shauna Wells;
Added wis_blues.shtml - Wisconsin Electric Blues Musicians [02-15-2004: page moved to wis_blues_e.shtml], Wisconsin Jazz Musicians, and Wisconsin Native American Indian Musicians, and moved all links for these artists/groups in wisconsin.shtml to the new pages.
.09-29-2003: Added Wisconsin Country Musicians, and moved all links for these artists/groups in wisconsin.shtml to the new page; Corrected all misspelled Jimmy Buffett and Peter Buffett references where their last names only had one "t".
.09-28-2003
.09-21-2003
.09-14-2003
.09-07-2003: Added another page to the list of Periodical Bibliographies: "International Bluegrass", bib_ibma.shtml,
Added Dr. Gerry Grzyb's "The Christmas Show", 2002 Playlist.
.08-31-2003: Deleted all of Gavan Tredoux's links "http://www.mosaic.co.za/gavan/" because the site has disappeared.
.08-03-2003: Last updates until Aug 31st. I will be out of town the next three weekends: Shawano - Old Time Music & Craft Festival, Milwaukee - Irish Fest, and La Crosse - Great River Folk Festival.
Added Wisconsin Pop and Rock Musicians, and started moving all the links for these artists/groups in wisconsin.shtml to the new page; Added Wisconsin label discography: WJJO Radio; Added "Wisconsin Discography" book draft chapters: Bibliography (Periodicals), Name Index, and the 2003 Performers for the Old Time Music & Craft Festival in Shawano, WI, otmcf_2003.shtml .
.07-27-2003: Sorry, no time to upload changes this week, too many things going on.
.07-20-2003
.07-17-2003: Added Wisconsin Record Labels by City, moved all information to the new page, and updated all old "wi_music.shtml#LABELS" links. Added Wisconsin City Cross Reference.
Changed all Jane Keefer's "Folk Music Index to Recorded Sources" links from "http://folkindex.mse.jhu.edu/" to "http://www.ibiblio.org/folkindex/".
.06-27-2003: My new Dell 8300 is due to be shipped July 2nd and it will take 3-4 days to get here. Therefore the next site update will be July 13th at the earliest.
.06/8,15,22,29/2003 - see 06-01-2003.
.06-01-2003: Notice: I will be moving to a new apartment during the month of June, changing Internet access (I'm fed up with Roadrunner dropping my Telnet and ssh login sessions), and I need to buy a new computer to replace my 3 year old HP-9680C, so I will probably be off-line most of the month and won't be uploading any more site updates before at least July 6th. The computer upgrade will include an operating system change. Getting my old Windows 98 programs to function under whatever M$ OS is current may delay the next upload. I have never used anything beyond Win98, even at work before I retired, so there may be a steep learning curve involved also, with additional delays. Stay tuned to this page.
Changed all Signature Sounds label links from "http://www.signature-sounds.com/" to "http://www.signaturesounds.com/".
.05-25-2003
.05-18-2003
.05-11-2003: Added Wisconsin Barbershop Groups, and moved all links for these groups in wisconsin.shtml to the new page; Added Wisconsin Barbershop Discography - Wisconsin Big Bands Discography.
Changed all titles "CMA Award Nominees/Winners" to "CMA Awards Database" and the links from "http://www.cmaawards.com/cgi-bin/cmaawards/search.cgi?query=First+Last" to "http://www.cmaawards.com/2002/search_artists/view_artist_nnn.htm" (search for the "nnn" in the Database);
Changed all Rainbow Walker (Arlie Neskahi) links from "http://www.rainbowwalker.net/" to "http://web.archive.org/web/20020914164008/http://www.rainbowwalker.net/" Internet Archive backups because the site has disappeared.
Changed all SWBMAI links from "http://emerald.jvlnet.com/~swbmai/" to "http://www.swbmai.org/".
.05-04-2003: In order to shorten the URL's to be printed in my forthcoming book, the "Wisconsin Pop and Rock Musicians Discography" was moved from "http://www.folklib.net/index/discog/wi07_poprock_discog.shtml" to http://www.folklib.net/poprock.shtml .
.04-27-2003: Changed all Richard Gillmann's Fingerstyle Guitar links from "http://www.nwlink.com/~rxg/" to "http://www.nwfolk.com/".
.04-20-2003: Added label discography: Folk Alliance.
.04-13-2003
.04-06-2003
.03-30-2003: Added "Wisconsin Discography" book draft chapter: Chapter 1: sample.
.03-23-2003
.03-16-2003: Added "Wisconsin Discography" book draft chapter: Title Index;
Started deleting all 1,376 All Music Guide broken links to "http://allmusic.com/", because it is no longer possible to install a stable link to any artist page or album title page at that site [8-03-2003: task completed, sadly, there are now no links to the All Music Guide site from this site]; Deleted all 121 GetMusic.com broken links to "http://www.getmusic.com/", because they are all now re-directed to the Rolling Stone Magazine home page.
.03-09-2003
.03-04-2003: Added Wisconsin Polka Site Map, Steve Young Band Promotional Flyer
.03-02-2003: Added "Wisconsin Discography" book draft chapters: Complete Bibliography - by Author and Date - Complete Bibliography - by Book Code - Pre-publication Notes.
Changed all Jeff Morris' "rec.music.dementia" Dr. Demento links from "http://php.indiana.edu/~jbmorris/" to "http://mypage.iu.edu/~jbmorris/";
.02-23-2003: Added Wisconsin label discography: Nomad World Pub;
Added "Wisconsin Discography" book draft chapters: Preface - Name Index - by musical genre;
The links to "Barb Diederich's Handy Bluegrass Links" Web site, deleted 7-28-2002, have been re-installed because the site has re-appeared at a new location, http://mywebpages.comcast.net/barb923/.
.02-18-2003: Added Wisconsin label discography: MABMA.
.02-16-2003: Added Wisconsin label discographies: Crustacean Records - Ripon College - Ripon College: Liner Notes. Moved the "Wisconsin Discography" book home page, and renamed it to something easier to remember:
http://www.folklib.net/wi3_discog.shtml - is now - http://www.folklib.net/book/
.02-09-2003: Added "Wisconsin Discography" book draft chapters: Abbreviations and Acronyms - Name Index - by city - Name Index - by instrument.
.02-02-2003: Added Wisconsin label discographies: Door County Voices, RCDD Records, Spiritone Records.
.01-26-2003: Added "Wisconsin Discography" book draft chapters: General Discography Books - Discography Sources.
.01-19-2003: Added "Wisconsin Discography" book draft chapters: Tentative Table of Contents - Book Selection Criteria - Wisconsin Label Discography - Other State Collections Discography.
Finally keyed in all the rest of the track titles for the complete 12-issue run of The Leak CD-Magazine discography installed .01-28-2001.
My old Web site, http://www.execpc.com/~henkle/, was deleted on .12-17-2000. I have written to every site owner that I can find an E-Mail address for, some more than once, asking them to update their links. As these sites have never linked to this domain, I can think of no other recourse except to start deleting all reciprocal links to sites with two year old dead links to my deleted site. I would be most happy to re-install a deleted reciprocal link if the page now links to this domain.
.01-12-2003: Added "Wisconsin Discography" book draft chapters: State Discography Books - Non-Wisconsin State Discography Books.
.01-05-2003: Added Door County, Wisconsin Musicians, and moved all links for these artists/groups in wisconsin.shtml to the new page.
.12-29-2002: Added Wisconsin Session Players, and started moving all the links for recording artists with no known solo album from the Wisconsin Artists page to this new page.
.12-22-2002
.12-19-2002: Added Dr. Gerry Grzyb's "The Christmas Show" playlists, 2001 Playlist and his 2002 Post Crescent CD Review.
.12-15-2002: Added Steven Alexander's "Fast Folk and Coop Database, with artist crossreferences": Discography and Artist Crossreference, with a page explaining the Special Features here that were not available on the original deleted page.
Added Dr. Gerry Grzyb's "The Christmas Show" playlists, 1997 Playlist, 1998 Playlist, 1999 Playlist.
.12-14-2002: Added Dr. Gerry Grzyb's "The Christmas Show" and three of his playlists, 1994 Playlist, 1995 Playlist, 1996 Playlist.
.12-08-2002: Some site design tweaking was done thanks to the excellent book about Web Usability, "Don't Make Me Think", by Steve Krug. 1) Clicking on "FolkLib Index" in the page title on the home page will display the site's logo as before. Clicking on "FolkLib Index" in every other page title will now link you back to the home page. 2) In the home page introductory text, made specific appropriate words or phrases into immediately usable links. 3) Added a "General site rule" note to the home page about bolded links going off-site. As noted in the paragraph at the top of this page, this "What's New?" page is one exception to that rule.
Deleted all CDnow biography, discography and ordering links at "http://cdnow.com/", because they are all now re-directed to the "amazon.com" home page, and I don't care to spend the time to search for replacement URL's for my 397 now dead links to CDnow.
.12-01-2002
.11-25-2002: Trivia, the Folk Library Index is seven years old today.
.11-24-2002
.11-17-2002: Added "FolkLib Index: Wisconsin Discography" (the book) and Famous Musician's Links.
.11-10-2002
.11-03-2002
.10-27-2002: Added Wisconsin Irish Fest Discography.
Changed all Edi Renggli's links from "http://www.geocities.com/EdiMusic/" to "http://www.mysunrise.ch/users/guitars/.
.10-20-2002: Changed all Paul Kucharski's Fingerstyle Guitar links from "http://www.execpc.com/~pgkuchar/" to "http://www.acousticfingerstyle.com/"; Changed all Wisconsin Historical Society links from "http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/" to "http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/".
.10-13-2002: Added Domain Site Map.
Changed all of Andy Burnett's Music Database links from "http://www.roadkill.com/cgi-andy/artist.pl?firstname_lastname" to "http://www.roadkill.com/MDB/artist.phtml/nnnn".
.10-06-2002: Added Wisconsin Session Work Discography (all those musicians with no known solo album who used to be listed in Wisconsin Discographies); Added text-to-HTML conversion, L.J. Booth Discography; Added specifications for the 1911 Casavant Freres organ, Opus 469 in the First Congregational Church of Oshkosh, WI.
Deleted all links to The International Lyrics Server, "http://www.lyrics.ch/", as all lyric pages have been deleted; Changed all Harmony Ridge Music links from "http://www.rahul.net/hrmusic/" to "http://www.hrmusic.com/"; Changed all CMT Television artist page links from "http://www.sonicnet.com/cmt/art/" to "http://www.cmt.com/art/".
.09-24-2002: Added Michelle Shocked: discography by Derek Gross. [This was all that was done today. The next full site update is scheduled for October 6th.]
.09-02-2002: I retired last Friday. Updates to the Index have been uploaded usually weekly for almost seven years. I need to take a few weeks off to rest and get caught up on other things before I resume doing weekly updates for the rest of my life.
.09-01-2002: Changed all of Les Kneeling's links from "http://www.lesk.demon.co.uk/" to "http://www.kneeling.co.uk/"; Changed all Fleming/Tamulevich link titles to Fleming and Associates, and all the links from "http://www.flemtam.com/" to "http://www.flemingartists.com/".
.08-04-2002: Last updates until Labor Day weekend. I will be out of town the next three weekends: Shawano - Old Time Music & Craft Festival, Milwaukee - Irish Fest, and La Crosse - Great River Folk Festival.
.07-28-2002: Added Wisconsin Classical Musicians, and moved all links for these artists/groups in wisconsin.shtml to the new page. "Barb Diederich's Handy Bluegrass Links" Web site, "http://www.tiac.net/users/jmmiller/", has been deleted, so either the links to that old site have been deleted, or they were replaced with backup versions from the The Internet Archive. [links re-installed 2-23-2003]
.07-21-2002: Added Oshkosh, Wisconsin Musicians, and moved all links for these artists/groups in wisconsin.shtml to the new page.
.07-14-2002: Added Wisconsin Polka Discography. Added Wisconsin Polka Bands, and moved all the links for these bands in wisconsin.shtml to the new page.
After I retire from UW Oshkosh on 08-30-2002, plans are to cut down on the size of wisconsin.shtml wherever I can. It is too big and takes too long to load. All non-Folk artists/groups will be moved to new pages. The new location of their name and links can be found on the Wisconsin Artist/Group Master Name Index page.
.07-07-2002: Added wi_studios.shtml, Moved all Wisconsin Recording Studios information to the new page, and updated all old "wi_music.shtml#STUDIOS" links.
.07-04-2002: Changed all RSACi/ICRA links from "http://www.icra.org/lr_about.html" to "http://66.221.20.127/_en/about/".
.06-23-2002 No updates this weekend.
.06-16-2002: Added UW Oshkosh: A Celebration of Scholarship; Changed all International Guitar Research Archive links from "http://www.csun.edu/~igra/igra/bio/" to "http://www.csun.edu/~igra/bios/".
.06-09-2002: Changed all Joann Murdock's Artists of Note links from "http://www.mcs.com/~jmurdock/" and "http://www.mcs.net/~jmurdock/" to "http://www.artistsofnote.com/"; Changed all Fox Valley Folklore Society links from "http://www.mcs.com/~hammerd/fvfs/" to "http://members.aol.com/fvfolk/"; Deleted all Mauro Ravera's links at "http://lem.ch.unito.it/~ravera/" as the site has disappeared; Deleted all "http://www.excite.com/" links because the entire site is now blocked by cookies and JavaScript.
.06-02-2002: Added 2002 Performers for the Old Time Music & Craft Festival in Shawano, WI, otmcf_2002.shtml .
.05-26-2002: Added new Wisconsin discographies: Runaway, Fritz Schuler and Musician's Birthdays: (sorted by birth date mo/da/yr) / (sorted by death date mo/da/yr).
.05-19-2002
.05-12-2002
.05-05-2002: Added new Wisconsin discographies: Eddie Allen, Mountain Railroad Records, Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra; Started changing all Ultimate Band List artist links from "http://www.ubl.com/ubl_artist.asp?artistid=nnnnnn" to "http://ubl.artistdirect.com/music/artist/card/0,,n??.html".
.04-28-2002: Changed the Argus Music Searcher link from "http://www.fuzzlogic.com/argus/" to "http://www.musicsearcher.com/", and all Michael Mihelakakis's links from "http://www.compulink.gr/users/micmic/" to "http://users.compulink.gr/micmic/"; Deleted all Mammoth Music Meta-List links "http://www.vibe.com/mmm/" as the site has disappeared.
.04-21-2002: Changed all CDDB discography links from "http://www.cddb.com/xm/search?q=name&f=artist" to "http://www.cddb.com/music/artist.html/ART=name", all Rainbow Walker (Arlie Neskahi) links from "http://www.rainbowwalker.com/" to "http://www.rainbowwalker.net/", and all "Common Times" magazine and Chris McIntosh's "Cyberfolk" column links from "http://www.cl.ais.net/chrismac/" and "http://www.wwa.com/~chrismac/" to "http://shark.dls.net/~chrismac/"; Changed all Tunes Network order links "http://www.tunes.com/artist/default.asp?" to Rolling Stone Magazine "http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/default.asp?" and all Tunes Network home page links "http://www.tunes.com/artist/default.asp?&artid=nnn" to "http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/default.asp?oid=nnnn"; Deleted all "The Bluegrass Babe" (Kathryn Gibbs) links "http://members.aol.com/tiptaptoe/", and all George Keith's "Fiddlers on the Web" links "http://www-openmap.bbn.com/users/gkeith/" as the sites have disappeared; Deleted all Goldmine Magazine links "http://www.krause.com/goldmine/", and "http://www.krause.com/records/gm/" because all those pages, discographies, Peter, Paul & Mary cover story, etc. have been deleted, and the link at "http://www.krause.com/static/records.htm" goes to a site that is blocked by cookies and not accessible by everyone.
Deleted all Bob Cherry's "Bluegrass Artist Profiles" links "http://www.banjo.com/Profiles/" as they have been deleted in preparation for Cybergrass shutting down completely!! after "9 years on the Net!";
.04-14-2002
.04-07-2002
.03-31-2002 No updates this weekend.
.03-24-2002: Moved all the temporarily hosted WFSC pages to their new domain.
.03-17-2002 No updates this weekend.
.03-10-2002 No updates this weekend.
.03-03-2002: Deleted all of Espen Skoglund's discography links "http://www.cs.uit.no/Music/" because "The Music database has been discontinued." So says "webmaster@cs.uit.no" as of 02-06-2002. Sad ... years of discographical research on hundreds of musicians lost forever. Started deleting Rounder Records artist profile and spotlight page links "http://www.rounder.com/rounder/artists/" because they have deleted them all.
.02-24-2002: In order to cut down on the size of wisconsin.shtml, started moving all links for an artist to their separate discography page, for example, B Alford; Changed all links from "http://www.mindspring.net/~oth/" and "http://www.mindspring.com/~oth/" to "http://www.oldtimeherald.org/".
.02-17-2002: Added Wisconsin Blues Musicians Discography; Added a concert search form to the Support Musi-Cal page.
.02-10-2002: Added new Wisconsin discographies Josh Calhoun, Mike and Karen Cove, Dennis Hawk, Laughing Whitefish.
.02-03-2002 No updates this weekend.
.01-27-2002: Added Wisconsin Native American Discography, Columbia Records Collections Discography; Started changing all Hugh Blumenfeld's links from "http://folkmusic.about.com/" to "http://www.balladtree.com/". Changed all Wisconsin Area Music Industry links from "http://www.wami.org/" to "http://www.wisconsinareamusicindustry.com/"; Changed all Alan Rowoth's links from "http://alan.lpl.org/" and "http://www.lpl.org/people/alan/" to "http://www.alanrowoth.com/";
.01-20-2002 No updates this weekend.
.01-13-2002: Added new Wisconsin discographies Skip Jones, Brett Kemnitz, Jym Mooney; Renamed several discography pages:
guitar_player.shtml to guitar2_player.shtml
makin_jam.shtml to makin2_jam.shtml
riness_clay.shtml to riness2_clay.shtml
sexauer.shtml to sexauer2.shtml
sing_out.shtml to sing2_out.shtml;
stoddard_david.shtml to stoddard2_david.shtml,
waters_cam.shtml to waters2_cam.shtml
As far as I know, nobody in the world links to any of these pages that were renamed.
.01-06-2002: Added new Wisconsin discographies B Alford, Gerri Gribi, Barbara Hoffman, Audrey Camille Nowak; Added a text-to-HTML conversion Northern Light Discography; Changed all MapBlast! map links from "http://www.mapblast.com/" to MapQuest "http://www.mapquest.com/".
.12-30-2001 No updates this weekend.
.12-25-2001: Added Wisconsin Pop and Rock Musicians Discography; Deleted all of Eric Penman's "Cool LZ's Country Links" links "http://www.albany.net/~coollz/" and "http://www.gentleman-jim.com/" as the sites have disappeared; Deleted all First Nations Music, Inc. links "http://www.fnmi.com/" as the site has disappeared.
.12-16-2001: Deleted all links to Tony Wicks' Indie Label List, "http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/external/T.Wicks/" as the site has disappeared.
.12-09-2001 No updates this weekend.
.12-02-2001 No updates this weekend.
.11-25-2001: Trivia note: this Index went on-line six years ago today, 11-25-1995.
.11-18-2001
.11-11-2001
.11-04-2001
.10-28-2001: Added a "Search the entire Web" option to the "Search This Site" page, Google.com's Safe Search.
Added Various Artists Collections Index pages for letter A, coll_a_index.shtml, as well as B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, W, and Y, and moved all the artists appearing on Wisconsin Collections to these new pages. Due to this re-design, two pages needed to be re-titled. The "Wisconsin Collections Discography" page is now, Wisconsin Collections (by Record Label), and the "Wisconsin Collections Discography index" page is now, Wisconsin Collections (by Release Date).
.10-21-2001: Added a Wisconsin discography, Sexauer Records, and a non-music related set of pages for the Wisconsin Federation of Stamp Clubs. [03-24-2002: all temporarily hosted WFSC pages were moved to their new domain, http://www.WFSCstamps.org/ ]
.10-14-2001: Sorry, but I was surprise volunteered for a new spare-time project that I had to work on and which prevented any updates from being uploaded this weekend.
.10-07-2001
.09-30-2001: Added Wisconsin discography, Grand Opera House (with 9 scanned images); Changed all FOCOL links from "http://www.focol.org/~" to "http://www.focol.org/"; Now that I have reached 3 score, I suppose you can expect more frequent illnesses like last week. Recording musicians who are reading this, please send me your birth date and birthplace information so you too can be listed among the many great and one not so great.
.09-23-2001 Due to illness, I am unable to upload any updates this weekend.
.09-16-2001: Changed all Fantasy Jazz Records links from "http://www.fantasyjazz.com/cat_*.html" to "http://www.fantasyjazz.com/catalog/*.html".
I surrender! For the fifth time since 1995, the Ultimate Band List (UBL), "http://www.ubl.com/", has changed the format of their URL's. I have deleted 133 now broken UBL links from all pages except Artist Index Files. I will fix those broken links when I have time. Sadly, their search option is now JavaScript Restricted!, which makes this site feature inaccessible to many screen readers for the blind.
.09-09-2001
.09-03-2001: Added Wisconsin discography, UW Oshkosh, Wisconsin Classical Musicians Discography, On-Site Discographies; Deleted all CD World links, "http://www.cdworld.com/" as the site has disappeared.
.08-26-2001 - No updates until Sept. 3rd, Labor Day night: I will be at the Great River Folk Festival in La Crosse all this weekend.
.08-19-2001 - No updates: I will be at Irish Fest in Milwaukee (Fri/Sun), and the 1st Annual Bill Jorgenson Invitational Bluegrass Festival in Green Bay (Sat).
.08-12-2001: Completed adding Bill Pringle's discographies (ex-UWP/FolkBook, now updated): Leon Russell, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Savuka, Marta Sebestyen, Richard Shindell, Michelle Shocked, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Tanita Tikaram, Timbuk3, The Waterboys, Cheryl Wheeler, Lucinda Williams, 10,000 Maniacs, 3 Mustaphas 3, Bulgaria, Fast Folk.
.08-05-2001: Started adding Bill Pringle's discographies (ex-UWP/FolkBook, now updated): The BoDeans, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Harry Chapin, Tracy Chapman, Johnny Clegg, Bruce Cockburn, Shawn Colvin, Steve Goodman, Amy Grant, Arlo Guthrie, John Hartford, The Horse Flies, Bernice Johnson-Reagon, Juluka, Muzsikas, Holly Near, Phil Ochs.
.07-29-2001: Added Wisconsin Music Site Map (Palm format); Because bibliog.shtml was large and slow to load, moved the book list menus to separate new pages, bibliog3.shtml (by date) and bibliog4.shtml (by author); Changed all Don Shorock's Walnut Valley Festival artist links from "http://www.wvfest.com/plethora.html" to "http://www.wvfest.com/archives/plethora.html".
.07-22-2001: Changed all Ari Davidow links from "http://www.well.com/user/ari/klez/bands/" to "http://www.klezmershack.com/bands/"; Changed all John Relph links from "http://reality.sgi.com/relph/" to "http://www.idiot-dog.com/".
.07-15-2001
.07-08-2001
.07-04-2001: Changed all Harbourtown Records links from "http://www.rootsworld.com/harbourtown/" to "http://www.harbourtownrecords.com/"; Changed all of Bill Markwick's Folk File links from "http://www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/~spencer/FF/" to "http://www.accad.ohio-state.edu/~spencer/FF/", and on 8-09-2005, changed them again to http://www.folklib.net/folkfile/; Deleted all Ticketmaster venue/artist searches: "http://events.ticketmaster.com/cgi/events/perfname.idc?searchname="; Every page with "FolkLib Index" in its title now links to the site logo.
.06-24-2001: Added Wisconsin Gospel / Contemporary Christian Discography; Started linking to the newly installed FolkLib Index Logo as part of the title of every page. It is not displayed on any page because it would slow down the loading of the page, which is unacceptable.
.06-17-2001: Added Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Site Map and Wisconsin Christmas Discography.
.06-10-2001: Changed all Folklore Productions links from "http://216.119.12.246/" to "http://www.folkloreproductions.com/".
.06-03-2001: Changed all MilwaukeeBands.com titles to MilwaukeeRocks.com and the links from "http://www.milwaukeebands.com/showbanddetail.asp/" to "http://www.milwaukeerocks.com/showbanddetail.asp/", and all "http://www.milwaukeebands.com/showclubdetail.asp" to "http://www.milwaukeerocks.com/showclubdetail.asp".
.05-27-2001: Deleted all Puddlestomp Records links to "http://w3.ime.net/~pdlstomp/" as the site has disappeared.
.05-20-2001: Deleted all the LSDS Music Archives links to "http://music.lsds.com/" as all the old pages have been deleted;
.05-13-2001: Added Sing Out! Magazine Discography and Support Musi-Cal pages; Changed all Graham Collins links from "http://www.collins-peak.co.uk/" to "http://old.collins-peak.co.uk/".
.05-06-2001: Changed all Ray Stiles' "Blues On Stage" links from "http://www.geocities.com/~mnblues/" to "http://www.mnblues.com/".
.04-29-2001
.04-22-2001: Added Wisconsin discography, Oshkosh High Schools.
.04-15-2001: Added Wisconsin Country Music Discography.
Added a second site search option courtesy of FreeFind, which offered to automatically generate site map and what's new pages. I thought it would include all 800+ pages here, but, no, the FreeFind Site Map includes only those pages linked to from the Home Page.
.04-08-2001: Added Wisconsin Bluegrass Bands Discography.
.04-01-2001: Added Wisconsin Solo Guitar Discography; Changed all Manfred Helfert's "Bob Dylan's Musical Roots" links from "http://www.yi.com/home/HelfertManfred/" to "http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/elstongunn/".
.03-25-2001: Added Wisconsin discography, OCAT Concert Videos.
.03-11-2001: Added Wisconsin Jazz Discography.
.03-04-2001: Installed old text discographies, Robbie Basho, David Cullen, Alex de Grassi, Andy Drake, William Ellwood, John Fahey, Rick Foster, Davey Graham. Deleted all links to Brad Worthen's Rory Block and Nanci Griffith pages, "http://www.socsci.umn.edu/~worthen/" as the site has disappeared.
.02-25-2001: Sad news, John Fahey passed away last Thursday, the 22nd.
Added Wisconsin discography, Gloria Hays; Started installing old text discographies not yet converted to HTML, William Ackerman, Seth Austen.
.02-18-2001
.02-11-2001: Changed all Michael McNeill's Every Celtic Thing on the Web links from "http://www.celt.net/og/" to "http://og-man.net/" (site obsolete;
Changed all Jane Keefer's "Folk Music Index to Recorded Sources" links from "http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/folkindex/" to "http://folkindex.mse.jhu.edu/".
.02-04-2001: Added Wisconsin discography, Betsy Kaske and a list of the past performers at the Old Time Music & Craft Festival held annually in Shawano, WI since 1979.
Deleted all Jaanus Vainu's BlueGrassRoots "http://bgr.ee/" links as the site has gone off-line permanently, unfortunately, including "http://www.PeterRowan.com/", which Jaanus maintained.
.01-28-2001: Added discography Waterbug Records Samplers, and text-to-HTML discography conversions, Andrew Calhoun, Bill Camplin, The Leak CD-Magazine.
.01-21-2001: Deleted all "http://www.enterprise.net/" harp links because access to the entire domain is now forbidden to all non-JavaScript customers; Deleted all SongSearch "http://songsearch.icorp.net/" order pages because they changed the URL to "http://dbx.icorp.net/" and then deleted every page at the site; Deleted all Robert Clay Burkhalter's Wisconsin Music Resource Center http://www.uwm.edu/People/burkharc/ links as it went off-line; Changed all 1,998 All Music Guide artist, group and album links on 155 different pages from "http://www.allmusic.com/" to "http://allmusic.com/" because the "www." format stopped working.
.01-14-2001 No updates (on vacation).
.01-07-2001: Added pages for the Fondy Acoustic Music Alliance and the Milwaukee Area Bluegrass Music Association. On-line membership applications are included for both Wisconsin music societies, FAMA and MABMA. These pages are being temporarily hosted by the FolkLib Index until they can create home pages of their own.
06-12-2001: The Fondy Acoustic Music Alliance (FAMA) temporary home page and membership application page added on this date are now obsolete, as FAMA now has its own home page.
Changed all Mabel's Music links from "http://www.futuris.net/mabels/" to "http://www.mabels.com/".
.12-31-2000: Again, with the invaluable assistance of Hugh Blumenfeld, added the Site Overview for First Time Visitors, first_time.shtml.
.12-24-2000: With considerable assistance from, and sincere thanks to, Hugh Blumenfeld, completely re-designed the Home Page for the first time since 11-25-1995 when the Index went live. I renamed the old Home Page to something else. I don't link to it, I don't want anyone else linking to it, and I don't want any search engines indexing it, so if you really need to use it for a month or so before I delete it, write to me and I will send you the temporary URL. I hope you like the new Home Page.
.12-17-2000: Added birth_a.shtml, birth_b.shtml, birth_c.shtml, birth_d.shtml, birth_e.shtml, birth_f.shtml; Deleted all temporary informational links to the obsolete ExecPC pages; All old ExecPC pages have been deleted.
.12-10-2000: Added birth_g.shtml, birth_h.shtml .
.12-03-2000: To cut down on the size of the pages and to eliminate the duplication of some links, merged all links in the "General" section of bluegrass.shtml, and all links in the "Bluegrass, Fiddlers and Old-Time Music artist lists" section of home_pages.shtml into a new page: Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Web Sites, bg_sites.shtml .
Deleted all links to Michael McDonald's bluegrass pages, "http://www.bluegrass-music.com/" as the site has disappeared.
.11-26-2000: Deleted all Boyd Martin links "http://www.teleport.com/~boydroid/" as the site has disappeared;
.11-19-2000: Added biog_lists.shtml (links moved there from the Home Page).
.11-12-2000: Added birth_j.shtml, birth_k.shtml, birth_l.shtml, birth_m.shtml; Deleted all International Disc links "http://www.importmusic.com/" which has disappeared.
.11-05-2000
.10-29-2000: Added Wisconsin discography Walter Craft. Changed all Cty Murph links from "http://members.aol.com/CtyMurph/ctymurph.html" to "http://www.ctymurph.com/".
.10-22-2000
.10-15-2000: Added Wisconsin discographies Makin' Jam Etc. Records, Wisconsin Collections, Wisconsin Collections Index; Deleted all Music et. al. Archives links because the site disappeared: "http://www.webjammers.com/projects/bands.html"; Renamed/changed all Milwaukee Rocks "http://www.milwaukeerocks.com/" links to MilwaukeeBands.com "http://www.milwaukeebands.com/"; Changed all Ultimate Band List home page links from "http://www.ubl.com/fp.asp?layout=main_front_page" to "http://www.ubl.com/".
.10-01-2000
.09-24-2000: Deleted all SmartCrawler links because this search engine now has links to adult sites on every page. Changed all Musi-Cal Venue Database links from "http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/searchvdb?venue_=venue+name&city_=city+name&state_=WI" to "http://www.musi-cal.com/vsearch?venue=venue+name&city=city+name&state=WI".
.09-17-2000
.09-10-2000
.09-03-2000: Deleted all links to Primal Beat, "http://www.primalbeat.com/", and Jose Esquivel's EarthLink pages, "http://www.earthlink.net/music/", sites which have disappeared.
.08-27-2000 No updates until next weekend as I will be in La Crosse all this weekend.
.08-20-2000: (updates installed early Tuesday am due to my being in Milwaukee on Sunday)
.08-13-2000: (updates installed early Tuesday am due to my being in Shawano all weekend)
.08-06-2000: Added Wisconsin discographies Clay Riness / Weary Wolf Records, Cam Waters.
.07-30-2000: Added Wisconsin discography David Stoddard.
.07-23-2000: When I tried them in April, "du" and "man du" were invalid/unknown. I don't know why, but they work now, so the size of the Index is back, in case anyone but me cares.
.07-16-2000: The ExecPC to /www.folklib.net/ conversion is complete.
.07-09-2000
.07-04-2000 (sizes unknown at this site, the "du" (disk usage) command doesn't work here): Moved the entire Folk Library Index to its new domain: http://www.folklib.net/; Added birth_n.shtml, birth_o.shtml, birth_p.shtml, browser_independent.shtml, folklib_conversion.shtml; Changed all Dirty Linen Gig Guide links from "http://www.dirtynelson.com/linen/special/pro.html#gigguide" to "http://www.dirtynelson.com/linen/special/faqs/gigguide.html";
Slightly reformatted the Birthdays/Bibliography pages by preceding every name with a unique character "~" that does not appear anywhere else on these pages. I can now get a total count of how many entries are on all of these pages, something not possible before.
.06-04-2000: Today's updates are the last at this ExecPC site. Effective July 5th, all future updates will be installed at the new FolkLib domain.
.05-28-2000
.05-21-2000
.05-14-2000
.05-07-2000
.04-30-2000: Added FolkLib Index is moving, the very last new page which will be added to this ExecPC site.
.04-23-2000
.04-16-2000: Yippee! I have my own domain, after almost five years with ExecPC.com (11-25-1995). I asked them, and they replied that they had no plans of supporting Server Side Includes (SSI) in the foreseeable future. As I had been using SSI to create scores of pages at work, I wanted that same modular functionality on my personal pages also. So I had to find someone else to host my domain. Stay tuned here for announcements about the move to my domain.
.04-09-2000
.04-02-2000: No time for updates this weekend. A Steve Cohen and Peter Roller concert Friday night, James King and seven great! Wisconsin Bluegrass Bands at the Festival in Mequon on Saturday, and an Eric Andersen concert Sunday night.
.03-26-2000
.03-19-2000
.03-12-2000: Deleted all links to Tom Keay's deleted music pages "http://web.syr.edu/~htkeays/".
.03-05-2000
.02-27-2000: The Full Circle Music Society, Reading, PA is back on-line.
.02-20-2000
.02-13-2000
.02-06-2000
.01-30-2000
.01-23-2000
.01-16-2000: Deleted all Launch.com links because it is now blocked by cookies and no longer accessible by everyone.
.01-09-2000: Added bibliog2.shtml; Changed all Grapevine Records links from "http://www.grapevine-label.co.uk/grapevine/" to "http://www.rmgplc.com/grapevine/"; Changed all Launch.com artist pages from "http://www.launch.com/ArtistPage/fs_start.asp?artistid=nn" to "http://www.launch.com/ArtistPage/fs_Start.asp?artistId=nn".
.12-26-1999: Due to Y2K caution there will be no updates next weekend. Here's wishing you all a Y2K bug-free New Year; For the few of you who may have tried to view this site's statistics this past week, ExecPC's home page Web Server died last week and had to be replaced, which lost all the Dec. 13-19 statistics; Changed all Bowed Electricity links from "http://www.digitalrain.net/bowed/" to "http://www.lightbubble.com/bowed/".
.12-19-1999: Over a year ago I was threatened with a lawsuit by fake Indian musicians for telling people they weren't Indians, so I was forced to stop actively promoting all authentic Native American Indian Musicians on my special native.html page. It has now been deleted. Please read the I Was Fooled, Were You?? Caveat Emptor (let the buyer beware) statement from Rainbow Walker Music.
.12-12-1999: Changed all Harmony Music List links from "http://www.v-music.com/vmusic/harmony/" to "http://www.sdam.com/" or "http://www.HarmonyMusicList.com/".
.12-05-1999
.11-28-1999: Changed all Ultimate Band List artist links from "http://www.ubl.com/artists/nnnnnn.html" to "http://www.ubl.com/ubl_artist.asp?artistid=nnnnnn", and all their home page links from "http://www.ubl.com/" to "http://www.ubl.com/fp.asp?layout=main_front_page".
.11-21-1999: The search.shtml page has been updated to reflect the fact that this past week Atomz.com changed their free Search Service policy from 5,000 maximum searches per month to unlimited; Due to pressing family matters this weekend, there will be no other updates installed until next weekend, Nov. 28th.
.11-14-1999
.11-07-1999: Changed all Hardknocks Records Database links from "http://www.hk-mfg.com/database/" to "http://www.hardknocks.net/".
.10-31-1999: Changed all of Bucky Halker's Revolting Records links from "http://www.housedog.com/waterdog/whitehou/" to "http://www.waterdogmusic.com/".
.10-24-1999: Added search_results.html; Changed all Class Act Entertainment links from "http://www.mindspring.com/~budm/classact/" to "http://classactentertainment.com/"; Changed all 1-800-PRIME-CD links from "http://www.precipice.com/~primecd/" to "http://www.primecd.com/".
.10-11-1999 No updates until late Sunday night 10-24.: I will be at the Folk Alliance Regional Midwest conference in Lake Geneva, WI all next weekend.
.10-10-1999: Added Search this site, search.shtml; Changed all of Richard Gillmann's Fingerstyle Guitar links from "http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~rxg/" to "http://www.nwlink.com/~rxg/"; Changed all Tunes Network order links from "http://www.tunes.com/release/default.asp?from=tune&relid=nnn" to "http://www.tunes.com/artist/default.asp?from=tune&artid=nnn". Changed all of Steven Alexander's Fast Folk links from "http://www.users.interport.net/~stevena/ff/" to "http://www.teleport.com/~stevena/ff/".
.10-03-1999 No updates until next weekend, my PC's monitor died Friday. night.
.09-26-1999: Changed all Folklore Productions links from "http://www.rootsworld.com/folklore/" to "http://216.119.12.246/".
.09-19-1999: Added birth_r.shtml, birth_s.shtml, birth_t.shtml; Changed all CMA Award Nominees/Winners links from "http://www.cma-awards.org/search/artists/First_Last.shtml" and "http://www.cma-awards.org/search/selectlist.cgi?NOMINEE=First_Last" to "http://www.cmaawards.com/cgi-bin/cmaawards/search.cgi?query=First+Last"; Changed all Cherry Lane Music artist links from "http://www.cherrylane.com/indivartist.cfm*" to "http://www.cherrylane.com/clprint/indivartist.cfm*".
.09-12-1999: Added Tingstad and Rumbel ( 139 AIF's); birth_w.shtml .
.09-05-1999: Added wi2_discog.shtml for Wisconsin acoustic musicians who appear on albums by non-Wisconsin musicians; Started splitting up the huge (and growing!) over 230 K Birthdays/Bibliography page into quick-loading smaller pages located in a new directory: birth_i.shtml, birth_v.shtml, birth_y.shtml, birth_quxz.shtml .
.08-25-1999 No updates until late Sunday night 09-05.: I was off-line all last weekend, and I will be in La Crosse, WI at the Great River Folk Festival all this weekend.
.08-15-1999: Changed all Tunes Network order links from "http://www.tunes.com/tunes-cgi2/tunes/person_frame/nnn/0/0/76" to "http://www.tunes.com/release/default.asp?from=tune&relid=nnn".
.08-08-1999
.08-01-1999
.07-25-1999
.07-18-1999
.07-11-1999
.07-05-1999: Thanks to the USPS which changed my ZIP code on July 1st, changed all 54902 to 54903. Otherwise, the entire three-day weekend was spent adding new names, birthdays and bibliographic references for scores of musicians to the Birthdays/Bibliography page.
.06-27-1999: Changed all International Lyrics Server artist links from "http://www.lyrics.ch/query/normal?exact=on&artist=last+first" to "http://www.lyrics.ch/search/bands.asp?band_id=nnnn"; Changed all iBluegrass band links from "http://www.ibluegrass.com/bg_bands2.cfm?Bands__ID=nn" to "http://www.ibluegrass.com/bg_bands2.cfm?b__i=nn".
.06-20-1999
.06-13-1999: Changed all Ottawa Valley Bluegrass Music Association links from "http://ValleyGrass.Ca/libby/" to "http://www.ValleyGrass.Ca/"; Changed all FROG - the Folk & Roots Online Guide links from "http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/2030/" to "http://www.folkworld.de/frog/".
.06-06-1999: Changed all Musi-Cal Venue Database links from "http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/searchvdb?key1=name&value1=venue+name&key2=city&value2=city+name&key3=state&value3=WI" to "http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/searchvdb?venue_=venue+name&city_=city+name&state_=WI".
.05-30-1999: Added Copyright and Trademark Information, copyrights.shtml; Started modifying every page's copyright date notation from, for example, "Copyright © 2000"2000"Copyright © 1998-2000" (see This Site's FAQ for an explanation of the new format); Started deleting all Music Boulevard links, "http://www.musicblvd.com/", which has just been absorbed into CDnow; Changed all Musi-Cal Performer Index links from "http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/list-performers" to "http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/list-perf".
.05-16-1999: There will be no Index updates until 05-30-1999. I will be at the ARSC International Annual Conference in Madison, WI all week.
.05-08-1999: Changed all links for Jeremy Butler's "The Internet Folk Radio List" from "http://www.folkmusic.org/media/resources/folkradio.html" to "http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ata/folkradio.html". Updates uploaded a day early. No work on the Index on Sunday in honor of Mother's Day.
.05-02-1999
.04-25-1999
.04-18-1999
.04-11-1999
.04-04-1999
.03-28-1999
.03-21-1999: Changed all 1,065 All Music Guide artist, group and album links from "http://allmusic.com/cg/x.exe?p=amg&sql=" to "http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=" ("exe" to "dll") on 137 different pages; Completed linking all 317 musicians on the Wisconsin Bluegrass Bands page and many on the Wisconsin Discographies page to their new entry on the Wisconsin Bluegrass Band Members page.
.03-14-1999: Added Wisconsin Bluegrass Band Members, wi_bg_members.shtml .
.03-07-1999: Changed all Tom's Catalog links from "http://www.wavenet.com/~tomcat/" to "http://www.jps.net/lisam9/"; Changed all Musi-Cal searches from "http://concerts.calendar.com/cgi-bin/music-search/ConcertServerInfo?" and "http://concerts.calendar.com/cgi-bin/event-search/ConcertServerInfo?" to "http://www.musi-cal.com/search?", all "http://concerts.calendar.com/concerts/" to "http://www.musi-cal.com/", all other "http://concerts.calendar.com/" and "http://www.calendar.com/" to "http://www.musi-cal.com/" (about 980 links).
.02-28-1999: Deleted all links to Mario's Music Yellow Pages, "http://www.goldtech.com/musicpages/", as the site has disappeared; Deleted all links to Music Central, "http://musiccentral.msn.com/artist/", "http://musiccentral.msn.com/ThisWeekIn/Reviews/", "http://musiccentral.msn.com/WeeklyFeatures/Article/", "http://musiccentral.msn.com/isapi/mcmap/", as they deleted all discography and articles/reviews pages; Changed all Twangin'! Country Music links from "http://www.well.com/user/cline/" to "http://www.steamiron.com/twangin/".
.02-21-1999: Deleted all links to Dusty Miller's Country Artists pages that he deleted, "http://www.country-time.com/artists/artists.htm"; Updated all of Jane Keefer's "Folk Music Index to Recorded Sources" links.
.02-14-1999: Changed all Guitar Foundation of America links from "http://www.cyberg8t.com/gfa/" to "http://www.guitarfoundation.org/".
.02-07-1999
.01-31-1999
.01-24-1999
.01-17-1999: Added text-to-HTML discography conversion, Morgan Brothers, Simply Folk; All Mammoth Music Meta-List links, "http://www.vibe.com/mmm/", are currently broken, but according to "http://www.vibe.com/ezines/text/mmm.html", it seems as if they are moving their entire set of links, for the third time (see 10-20-1996 and 06-23-1996);
.01-10-1999
.01-03-1999: Added text-to-HTML discography conversion, Rory Block; Added CDDB links for everyone in discog.shtml that has CD's listed in that database.
.12-30-1998 My back went out Christmas morning. I have been off-line since then. No updates until next weekend.
.12-20-1998: Added text-to-HTML discography conversions, Judy Collins, Michael Hedges, David Wilcox; Deleted all MDB Music Database discography links, "http://www.musicdatabase.com/" (a subset of CDDB), because the site is being totally re-designed and all previous links to it do not work. The links will be reinstalled when it comes back on-line; Deleted all Mining Co. Folk Music links, "http://folkmusic.miningco.com/", because Folk Music as a distinct genre of music, and all related links to and/or about Folk Music and Folk Musicians have been deleted from the site.
.12-13-1998: Added another Q/A to This Site's FAQ; Finished the "FolkBook: The Discography Pages..." to FolkLib Index - Discographies conversion work.
.12-06-1998: Added text-to-HTML discography conversion, Barby Holder; Deleted "wis.html", which was moved and renamed six months ago.
.11-29-1998: Added another Q/A to This Site's FAQ; Started adding a link to This Site's FAQ to the top of every page (hopefully, this will help cut down on the flood of repetitive questions I get) [12-13-1998 all added except discographies]; Finished replacing every broken "Hidden Water Folk Venue Database" link on the Wisconsin Concerts and Venues by City page by its equivalent new Musi-Cal Venue Database page; Changed all CDDB artist searches from "http://www.cddb.com/xm/search2?artist=" to "http://www.cddb.com/xm/search?q=".
.11-22-1998: Added eight new Questions/Answers to This Site's FAQ; Deleted all WILMA (Worldwide Internet Live Music Archive) links, "http://www.wilma.com/" and "http://search.wilma.com/", because they just password protected their entire site, i.e. it is now impossible to link to any concerts they might list for any individual artist, group or city.
.11-15-1998: Added text-to-HTML discography conversion, Kim Robertson.
.11-08-1998: Added two more Periodical Bibliographies: "Old-Time Herald", bib_oth.shtml, and "Tell it Like it is", bib_tell.shtml .
.11-01-1998: Added Billy McLaughlin; Changed all of Mark Dalton's links from "http://lenti.med.umn.edu/~mwd/" to "http://www.cbc.umn.edu/~mwd/".
.10-25-1998
.10-18-1998: Changed all Don Shorock's Walnut Valley Festival artist links from "http://homepage.midusa.net/~shorock/wv/plethora.htm#*" to "http://www.wvfest.com/plethora.html#*", and Home Page links from "http://homepage.midusa.net/~shorock/wv/wvmenu.htm" to "http://www.wvfest.com/"; Changed all LEO UWP Mirror lyrics links from http://www.leo.org/pub/rec/music/vocal/lyrics/uwp/ http://www.leo.org/pub/rec/music/lyrics/.
.10-11-1998: Changed all Signature Sounds Artists links from "http://www.signature-sounds.com/*.html" to "http://www.signature-sounds.com/*/".
.10-04-1998: Deleted all TST Audio-On-Demand (Taylor Subscription Talk) links, "http://www.tstradio.com/", as the site has shut down; Started adding Musi-Cal Venue Database links as replacements for the deleted Hidden Water Folk Venue Database links in Wisconsin Concerts and Venues by City and other Wisconsin pages.
.09-27-1998: Changed all of Jay D. Schankman's page titles from "Aardvark's Archive" to "The Concert Web"; Started deleting all Performance Magazine itinerary links, "http://www.performancemag.com/", as the entire site has been deleted [completed 10-18-98].
.09-20-1998: Added text-to-HTML discography conversion, Iris DeMent; Changed all Internet Movie Database links from "http://uk.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+" to "http://uk.imdb.com/Name?".
.09-13-1998: Changed every page title from "The FolkLib Index..." to "FolkLib Index..." so that when a page is listed at a music site where links are sorted alphabetically, it appears with other "Folk" pages, instead of other "The" pages.
.09-07-1998: Added This Site's FAQ, faq.shtml; Deleted all links to my now dead page, "native.html"; Deleted the four obsolete "Please change your link" message pages which informed people that those pages had moved to a new location. It has been almost six months since then, so they have been deleted. The files just deleted were listed in the 03-22-1998 entry.
.08-30-1998 No updates, spent all weekend at the Great River Folk Festival in La Crosse, WI.
.08-23-1998: Added Wisconsin Bluegrass Band Sources, wi_bg_sources.shtml; Changed all Bobby links from "http://www.cast.org/bobby2.0/" to "http://www.cast.org/bobby/".
.08-16-1998: Added Bibliography Lists / Bibliography Index; Started adding venue Home Page links to Wisconsin Concerts and Venues by City because Hidden Water's Folk Venue Database is permanently off-line, and it is unknown when its replacement site will be on-line; Changed all Bill Pringle links from "http://www.gv.psu.edu/personal/wrp103/" to "http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/w/r/wrp103/".
.08-09-1998
.08-02-1998
.07-26-1998: Changed all Deering Banjo Company links from "http://www.torranceweb.com/category/music/deering/" to "http://www.deeringbanjos.com/"; Changed all International Disc links from "http://www.sarahsplace.com/intldisc/" to "http://www.importmusic.com/".
.07-19-1998: Changed all Mauro Ravera's links from "http://chpc06.ch.unito.it/~ravera/" to "http://lem.ch.unito.it/~ravera/"; Changed all Internet Music Review Service links/Title from "http://www.monsterbit.com/IMRS/" to CDReviews.com "http://www.cdreviews.com/";
Changed all Cybergrass links from "http://www.banjo.com/BG/" to "http://www.banjo.com/";
.07-15-1998: Added only the PICS/RSACi Rating META code and their required rating graphic (the only graphic in the entire Index) to the Home Page. There are some Parental Control programs that are beginning to check for this rating code. Unfortunately, the programs are assuming that sites without the code are "unknown" to be smut free, so access to perfectly innocent unrated sites will be blocked by these programs. It is a good idea, in theory, however I don't especially care for their "guilty until proven innocent" attitude. Also, if you are using Lynx or some other browser which doesn't understand JavaScript, don't even try to register your site, because you can't.
.07-12-1998: For those few who actually read this, I have been on sick leave, including 8 days in the hospital, and off-line since June 10th. I have no Internet connection at home; Added bib_fm.shtml; Changed all 927 All Music Guide links from "http://allmusic.com/cgi-win/AMG.exe?sql=2P_IDP" to "http://allmusic.com/cg/x.exe?p=amg&sql=B" and deleted all "|" (eg. "=2P_IDP|||||2595" is now http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=B2595).
.06-10-1998: Sorry for the delay in installing last weekend's updates. My back went out Saturday and today is the first I've been able to get near a computer to do the uploads.
.06-07-1998: Oops! I had to re-rename all the "name=" tags and all the links to them that I did last week because I didn't test any of them to see if they would work with Lynx ... they didn't. I discovered that Lynx strips off any embedded blanks in a URL before it looks for the link. So all links like, for example, "wisconsin.shtml#Stevenson, Patty" have been changed to "wisconsin.shtml#Stevenson,Pt". The same fix was done to all "wi/wi_bg_bands.shtml#*" and "discog/wi_discog.shtml#*" similar tags and links. My apologies to all visitors to my pages using Lynx last week for all the broken links.
.05-31-1998: Added Mid-West Bluegrass Organizations; Decided to rename all "name=" tags for Folk Musicians in "wisconsin.shtml" from a shortened form to the artist's full name, the same format as used in the Wisconsin Discographies and Bluegrass Bands pages, eg. "wisconsin.shtml#STEVP" is now "wisconsin.shtml#Stevenson, Patty". I have no plans on making this change to the Non-Folk Musicians on this page or to other artists on any other pages. In case anyone cares to know, for the next several weeks, I will continue to spend the majority of my time on the Wisconsin Discographies and Bluegrass Bands pages. Installation of requested additions/corrections to other pages may be delayed for awhile.
.05-25-1998: Moved and renamed "wis.html" to wi/;
.05-17-1998: Added Wisconsin Bluegrass Bands.
.05-09-1998: Changed all Folk Alliance links from "http://www.hidwater.com/folkalliance/" to "http://www.folk.org/"; Changed all Art Edelstein's links from "http://plainfield.bypass.com/~arte/" to "http://www.sover.net/~arte/"; Changed all Mike Moroney's KiwiFolk links from "http://www.earthlight.co.nz/users/mikem/" to "http://www.kiwifolk.org.nz/".
.04-19-1998: PLEASE NOTE: There will be no further Index updates installed until at least Sunday night May 10th. Last Friday afternoon, I almost severed the tendon in my right index finger. Until the ten stitches are removed and I have my mouse hand back, I cannot attempt to do any updates.
Added text-to-HTML discography conversions, Cornerstone, Gilmour Bros.; Added Wisconsin Music Site Map; Started moving all birthday, birthplace, death date information to the Birthdays/Bibliography page so it only needs to be updated in one place. The artist's Bibliog (FolkLib) link may include birthday information.
.04-12-1998 Easter weekend, no updates were installed.
.04-05-1998: Fully converted henkle.shtml to HTML. My apologies to Lynx readers for the Tables format created with (Yuck!) MS FrontPage. Tables was the only way I could add links to all the discographies I have written, and still be able to update the page easily with my text editor. It took a great deal of work to delete all the invalid, non-standard garbage HTML code added by FrontPage that I could, unfortunately, it was still impossible to create clean, error-free HTML 3.2 code with either FrontPage or Claris HomePage, which we used to create our new Department Home Pages. Therefore, I had to delete the Best Viewed With Any Browser link from this page, the only one without it in the entire Index ... bummer! See the new henkle_text.shtml for a non-Tables Lynx readable version of this page.
.03-29-1998: Added Wisconsin Discographies; Added new discographies Duffey & Srubas, Green Apple Folk Music Society, and a text-to-HTML discography conversion, Steve Hazell; Changed all Dr. Demento links from "http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~jbmorris/" to "http://php.indiana.edu/~jbmorris/";
.03-22-1998: Deleted all of Hidden Water's FolkLink links to "http://www.hidwater.com/folklink/" as they all have been deleted; Hidden Water has also deleted the entire Folk Venue Database which contained invaluable detailed information about over 4,000 venues in the U.S. and Canada, "http://www.hidwater.com/folkvenue/". My top priority at this time is to get FolkBook's deleted discographies back on-line as fast as I can, so all my Folk Venue links will stay broken for possibly several weeks;
Changed All Mai Cramer's Blues Artists links from "http://www.realblues.com:4100/" to "http://www.realblues.com/";
.03-15-1998: Started adding replacement pages for deleted FolkBook discography pages discog.shtml, bibliog.shtml, birth2days.shtml, library.shtml, Guitar Player Magazine, Richard Pinney, henkle.shtml .
.03-08-1998: Changed all my UW Oshkosh Home Page links from "http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/henkle/" to "http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/henkle/home2.shtml" because our entire Academic Computing Staff will get new similarly formatted Home Pages tomorrow afternoon; Deleted the following obsolete record label pages which I no longer have time to update: elektra.html, mammoth.html, mesa.html, rainy_day.html, schoolkids.html, and sony.html (all links to these pages were deleted in January);
And just in case you haven't noticed yet, this site has a new name. Stephen Spencer's "FolkBook" is now permanently off-line. The entire weekend was spent revising every page in the Index. Much more conversion needs to be done. For help with your now broken FolkBook links, see the updated "index_general.html" page which has been renamed to the FolkBook to folkmusic.org Conversion Page.
.03-01-1998
.02-22-1998: Deleted all the "FolkVote '97" links except the one below ( here are the results); Changed all Harmony Music List links from "http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/webmaster/harmony/*/*.html" to "http://www.v-music.com/vmusic/harmony/*/*.shtml", all Blue Flame Cafe links from "http://www.surfin.com/TheBlueFlameCafe/" to "http://www.blueflamecafe.com/", and the Digital Tradition link from "http://www.deltablues.com/dbsearch.html" to "http://www.deltablues.com/folksearch.html"; Deleted all The Soundhole guitarist links "http://www.teleport.com/~richm*/" because Rich Martin has shut down the site.
.02-15-1998: Changed all Soundhole links from "http://www.teleport.com/~richm/" to "http://www.teleport.com/~richm2/" and deleted broken links for guitarists they have dropped: Paul Carroll Binkley, Ed Gerhard, Pete Huttlinger, Billy McLaughlin, Christopher Shaw, Tim Sparks and Benjamin Woolman, all of whom have their own home page now.
.02-08-1998: Added Ariane Lydon (from Wisconsin); Changed all Concerted Efforts links from "http://members.aol.com/concerted/" to "http://www.concertedefforts.com/"; Changed all Hidden Water Performers' URL's links from "http://www.hidwater.com/folkvenue/fvlist?t.html" to "http://www.hidwater.com/folklink/folklink?.html".
.02-01-1998: Changed all of Grant Alvis' Guitar Legends links from "http:/www.io.com/~galvis/" to "http/www.guitarnotes.com/guitar/rmmga/".
.01-25-1998: Added Greg Brown; Changed all Sing Out! magazine links from "http://www.libertynet.org/~singout/" to "http://www.singout.org/", and all Winnipeg Folk Festival links from "http://www.magic.mb.ca/" to "http://www.total.net/".
.01-19-1998: Added Ladysmith Black Mambazo; Linked to - Cast Your Vote "FolkVote '97" (1/13 - 2/13/98) - 1997 Releases at the top of every Index page that had 100 or more visits the week of Jan 5 1998 to Jan 11 1998, plus selected others (15 pages in all). The announcement will be deleted sometime after the vote closes 2/13/98; Changed all Dave Downin's "ArloNet" links from "http://www.clark.net/pub/arlonet/" to "http://www.arlo.net/"; Deleted "pre_installation_notes.html".
.01-11-1998
.01-04-1998: Added cddb.shtml for the CDDB discography database; Deleted all "http://www.wco.com/~jrush/" "Library of Musical Links" links because the site has been deleted.
.12-28-1997: Started making numerous format changes to every page at this site so that eventually every one can be read properly by people with disabilities. Bobby approved links will be added to the bottom of pages after they pass disabled access inspection. Started adding links for the CDDB on-line discography site (eg., see Steve Hazell).
.12-21-1997: Changed all The Ultimate Band List resource links from "http://www.ubl.com/ubl/rsrc/" to "http://www.ubl.com/ubl/resource/"; all The Blue Highway links from "http://www.vivanet.com/~blues/" to "http://thebluehighway.com/"; and all Dawgnet Links from "http://www.sfm.com/dawgnet/" to "http://www.dawgnet.com/".
.12-14-1997: Changed all UW-Parkside Music Archives (mirror) links from "http://music.wit.org/uwp/music/" to "ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/music/".
.12-07-1997: Moved all Wisconsin non-individual artists/groups links in Wisconsin Artists to a new wi_music.shtml "Wisconsin Acoustic Music" page to speed up page loading.
.11-30-1997
.11-23-1997: Added Woody Guthrie, Phil Ochs, Ricky Skaggs.
.11-16-1997
.11-09-1997: Changed all D'Addario Strings artist page links from "http://www.daddario.com/" to "http://www.daddario.com/DADDARIO_ENDORSEES/"; Added census data links for all Wisconsin cities in wi_venues.shtml .
.11-02-1997: Changed all Green Apple Folk Music Society links from "http://www.focol.org/club-org/greenapple/" to "http://www.focol.org/~grapple/".
.10-26-1997: No updates this week because my PC was being converted to Windows 95 and I temporarily lost access to all my Windows 3.11 files and programs.
.10-19-1997
.10-12-1997
.10-05-1997
.09-28-1997
.09-21-1997
.09-14-1997: Deleted all "ymmdd_updates.html" pages and all links to them, due to the fact that webcrawler programs have ignored the NOINDEX/NOFOLLOW Meta tags I installed in them all several months ago. These pages were linked to only from this page, and they contained a list of the pages updated in one individual week. No new pages like this have been installed since August 1996, so the information they contain is obsolete to almost everyone. If you really need to know exactly what pages were updated for any given week since 11-25-1995, please write explaining why you need them, and I will be glad to send you, via E-Mail, whichever weekly file(s) you need.
.09-07-1997
.09-01-1997: Added wi_venues.shtml Wisconsin Concerts and Venues by City; Deleted a number of obsolete access statistics log files, see stats.html#09-01-1997.
.08-24-1997: Cherry Lane Music has digitized all their artists, so I changed all their artist links from "http://www.cherrylane.com/*.html"> to "http://www.cherrylane.com/indivartist.cfm?ThisArtistNumber=*", e.g. "tompaxton.html" is now artist number 111.
.08-17-1997
.08-10-1997: Another on-line music store bites the dust - deleted all Total Entertainment Now (U.K.) links "http://cd.store.co.uk/TEN/Music/".
.08-03-1997
.07-27-1997: Changed all BluesNet links from "http://dragon.acadiau.ca/~rob/blues/" to "http://www.hub.org/bluesnet/".
.07-20-1997
.07-13-1997: Changed all UW-Parkside Music Archives links from "http://ftp.uwp.edu/pub/music/" and "http://archive.uwp.edu/pub/music/" to "http://music.wit.org/uwp/music/"; Changed all UWP-MA (mirror) links from "http://music.wit.com/" to "http://music.wit.org/" (see 12-14-1997);
My UW Oshkosh address is still the same, but I changed my E-Mail address on all 223 of my Index and UW Oshkosh pages to "henkle@pobox.com" in an attempt to cut down on the growing volume of junk mail I get due to visits from mass marketer's Web crawlers. POBOX.COM provides a Junk Mail Protection service which detects incoming mail from known "spam" addresses. Note that if nothing else except this E-Mail address "mailto:" link is changed on a page, the "last updated" date will not be modified.
.07-06-1997: Added "FolkBook Home Page / The Biography Pages..." to the bottom of every artist index page, every INDEXn.shtml page, and all the special index pages: bluegrass, blues, fingerstyle guitarists, harpers/harpists, and native and wisconsin artists; Added" Best Viewed With Any Browser" to the top of every page in the entire Index, except *log.html pages (if nothing else was changed on a page, the "last updated" date was not changed).
.06-29-1997: Added The UW-Parkside Music Archives is gone :-( and started changing all possible links to its mirror at "http://music.wit.org/uwp/music/", some may have to be deleted (see 07-13-1997); Changed Crystal River III to Crystal River Trio; Since this site came on-line on 11-25-1995, I have tried to make everything here readable by every browser in existence. There are no frames, tables, java or JavaScript, cgi-bin scripts, non-alphanumeric or non-standard punctuation characters (tilde, umlaut, etc., except for "© " copyright symbol and " " blank space which cause no problem for Lynx), and no counters, graphics or sounds at this site to slow down your finding the link to the information you came here looking for. When I discovered the Best Viewed With Any Browser site this past week, I was glad to join the campaign and started adding a link to it on many of my pages.
.06-22-1997
.06-15-1997: Added Blackhawk (Richard Kapusta) (from Wisconsin); Moved all native music links in home_pages.shtml and all individual native artist links in indexa-z.shtml to a new native.html. 09-07-1998: Page had to be deleted. Moved all links back to the above pages.
.06-08-1997: Moved all the Fan Clubs links on the Home Page to a new Fan Clubs; Changed all Australian Music Monolith links from "/www.odyssey.com.au/wtc/monolith/" to "/hitsquad.thehub.com.au/monolith/".
.06-01-1997: Added Bobbie Gentry, Barby Holder, Kennedy-Rose.
.05-25-1997: Changed all Entertainment Connection links from "/$tec.exe/ec/link/oslinkdirect.htx?" to "/tec.dll/ec/link/oslink.htx?Type=Direct&".
.05-18-1997: Added Art Garfunkel.
.05-11-1997: Added Stu Ramsay, Harvey Reid; Moved all the Thank You Links links on the Home Page to a new folklib_thanks.shtml page, so that this site's Home Page would once again fit on only two Netscape printed pages; Changed all of William Stoner's pages from "http://www.morningstar.com/bilbo/" to "http://www.progressive-systems.com/~bilbo/", and all of Rick Lee's Waterbug Records links from "http://world.std.com/~ricklee/" to "http://www.waterbug.com/" (every artist's page filename also changed).
.05-04-1997: Added Preston Reed; Changed all Concerted Efforts links from "http://members.gnn.com/concerted/" to "http://members.aol.com/concerted/.
.04-27-1997: Changed all Grapevine Records links from "http://www.musicians-net.co.uk/mmr/" to "http://www.grapevine-label.co.uk/grapevine/; Added a note to the obsolete "index.html" page: 04-27-1997: This "index.html" page continues to REALLY! mess up the site usage statistics. Therefore, all links off this problem page will be deleted 5-18-1997 or sometime thereafter. Please change your link to "fbindex.html". Thank you.
.04-20-1997: Added Bola Sete; Changed all Walnut Valley Festival links from "http://homepage.midusa.net/~shorock/wv/wvf96skd.htm" to "http://homepage.midusa.net/~shorock/wv/wvmenu.htm"
.04-13-1997: Moved all the FAQ links on the Home Page to a new Music FAQ Sites; Changed all Primal Beat links from "http://nmc.thejournal.southam.ca/speakout/music/browse.html" to "http://www.primalbeat.com/browse.html" and "http://nmc.thejournal.southam.ca/speakout/music/categories/" to "http://www.primalbeat.com/", all Graham Collins links from "http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/" to "http://www.collins-peak.co.uk/", and all of Tom Loredo's Acoustic Guitarists' Annotated Guide to the Internet links from "http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/loredo/ag/" to "http://www.museweb.com/ag/"; Finished the conversion of all internal links from "index.html" to "fbindex.html".
.04-06-1997: Added Duffey & Srubas (from Wisconsin).
.03-30-1997: Added Crystal River III (from Wisconsin) and Arlo Guthrie; Changed all Harmony Central links from "http://harmony-central.mit.edu/" to "http://www.harmony-central.com/".
.03-23-1997: Added Cornerstone; Changed all International Guitar Research Archive links from "http://www.csun.edu/~hcmus013/igra/" to "http://www.csun.edu/~igra/igra/" and all "http://www.csun.edu/~hcmus013/igrademo/bios/" to "http://www.csun.edu/~igra/igra/bio/text/", Changed all Maggie's Music links from "http://www.universe.digex.net/~magmusic/*.html" to "http://www.maggiesmusic.com/mm*.html".
.03-16-1997: Changed all Rough Guide to Rock links from "http://www.roughguides.com/RG_WWW/rock/final_rock_entries/" to "http://www.roughguides.com/rock/entries/", and all London Calling links from "http://www.demon.co.uk/london-calling/" to "http://www.london-calling.co.uk/".
.03-09-1997: http://www.execpc.com/~henkle/fbindex/fbindex.html is the new Home Page URL of this site. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I had to change it from "index.html" to "fbindex.html". As soon as all the internal links in the 200+ pages at this site have been converted over to the new URL, the contents of the "index.html" page will be replaced with just a link to the new "fbindex.html" page. No other file names at this site have been changed. Note that if nothing else except this internal link is changed on a page, and if necessary, the new Copyright year, the "last updated" date will not be modified. I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Added KG & The Ranger (from Wisconsin) and Tommy Jarrell; Changed all Oh Boy Records links from "http://www.nashville.net/ohboy/" to "http://www.ohboy.com/~ohboy/", all Anil Prasad's Innerviews links from "http://www.carleton.ca/~aprasad/" to "http://www.innerviews.org/", and all Library of Musical Links links from "http://www-scf.usc.edu/~jrush/" to "http://www.wco.com/~jrush/.
.03-02-1997: Added Alison Brown; Changed all Green Apple Folk Music Society links from "http://www.focol.org/comm-ev/ga/grapple.html" to "http://www.focol.org/club-org/greenapple/"; the current size (in K) of the Index is unknown because ExecPC upgraded their hardware on 02-19-1997 and the disk usage detail from the "quota" command doesn't work on the new system yet.
.02-23-1997: Added David Elias, Gordon Lightfoot, R. Carlos Nakai.
.02-16-1997: Started adding HTML 2.0 validation links at the bottom of those pages that pass after installation (unfortunately, many of my pages cannot pass due to the "& " (ampersand) HTML entity tag being used as a separator in many CGI program script URL's); started removing unnecessary "#TOP" anchor code from the URL of almost all of my "*.html#TOP" internal links.
.02-09-1997
.02-02-1997: Changed all Gene Wilburn's "Northern Journey Online" links from "http://www.io.org/~njo/" to "http://www.interlog.com/~njo/".
.01-26-1997: Deleted all The World Library "http://www.scescape.com/worldlibrary/" and The Full Circle Music Society in Reading, PA "http://dns.hammer.net/berks/fcms/groups.htm" links, sites which seem to have disappeared; started changing all NOMA links again (see 3-03-1996), this time from "http://songs.com/noma/" to "http://www.songs.com/".
.01-20-1997: Added Eric Andersen, Muriel Anderson, Andrew Calhoun, Judy Collins, John Hartford, Maura O'Connell, Odetta, Bill Staines, Art Thieme; Changed all Maggie's Music links from "http://universe.digex.net/" to "http://www.universe.digex.net/".
.01-12-1997: Added url_preferred.shtml; Changed all Jaanus Vainu's BlueGrassRoots links from "http://rei.ee/broadcasting/" to "http://bgr.ee/".
.01-05-1997: Moved all the Articles On-line, Discography, Lyrics, Pictures, Sound, Video, Internet Mailing List, and Usenet Newsgroup links on the Home Page to new Articles On-line, Discography Sites, Lyric Files, Picture Files, Sound Files, Video Files, Internet Mailing Lists and Usenet Newsgroups index files [why?: faster loading of fbindex.html]; Due to "1-800 Music Now" going out of business, effective 01-01-1997, started deleting all "http://www.1800musicnow.mci.com/" and "http://www.1800musicnow.com/" links.
.[01-01-1997]: "[01-01-1997, 98, etc.]" appears on the page that linked you here because nothing else except the new year's Copyright date was changed at the bottom of that page. If the layout of a page is modified but none of the information is changed, the last updated date will not be changed.
.12-29-1996: Added Liona Boyd, Hilary Field; Changed all of Jay Glicksman's Folk Music Home Page (FMHP) links from "http://www.eit.com/web/" to "http://www.jg.org/".
.12-22-1996: Added Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, Chris Proctor; Changed all Brian Bergstrand links from "http://www.cris.com/~dmoll/*.shtml" to "http://www5.pair.com/dmoll/guitar/*_index.html"; all Smithsonian Institution Shopping Mall links from "http://www.si.edu/products/shopmall/records/" to "http://www.si.edu/youandsi/products/records/"; and all James Barrow links for Doc & Merle Watson from "http://www.wilkes.cc.nc.us/" to "http://nomad.wilkes.cc.nc.us/".
.12-15-1996: Changed all Shoreline Acoustic Music links from "http://www.samusic.com/*.htm" to "http://www.samusic.com/*.shtml"; and all Adam Schneider links from "http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/m161/schn0170/" to "http://pobox.com/~schneider/music/". (12-17-1996, 6:30 am CST, installed updates, ExecPC was down yesterday morning.)
.12-08-1996: Added Peter Lang.
.12-01-1996: Added Carolyn Hester; Changed all Ticketmaster links from "http://www.ticketmaster.com/events/PERFORMANCES/*/" to "http://events.ticketmaster.com/cgi/events/perfname.idc?searchname=*" (don't forget to delete the trailing "/" from the old URL).
.11-24-1996
.11-17-1996: Added Keola Beamer, John Denver;
Changed all Cybergrass artist profile links from "http://www.banjo.com/BG/Profiles/" to "http://www.banjo.com/Profiles/".
.11-10-1996
.11-03-1996: Changed all WILMA links from "http://wilma.com/" to "http://www.wilma.com/"; the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator moved to "http://www.southam.com/hamiltonspectator/" but they decided not to install any of the "Ego Interactive" pages which used to be at "http://www.thespectator.com/ego/hom.html", so the links to their deleted pages for Fred Eaglesmith, David Essig, Ruth Sutherland, Stan Rogers and Garnet Rogers were deleted; started changing links to match Musi-Cal's new format for artist names with an embedded space, e.g. "de%20Grassi,Alex" is now "de+Grassi,Alex".
.10-27-1996: Changed all Digital Tradition Lyric Database links from "http://web2.xerox.com/digitrad/", "http://www.xerox.com/digitrad/" and "http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/digitrad/" to "http://www.deltablues.com/dbsearch.html".
.10-20-1996: Changed all Mammoth Music Meta-List links from "http://www.pathfinder.com/vibe/mmm/" to "http://www.vibe.com/mmm/" (note this new URL also replaces the obsolete "http://www.timeinc.com/vibe/mmm/" URL's that changed last June).
.10-13-1996: Changed all Fleming/Tamulevich links from "http://members.aol.com/cynthiafta/" to "http://www.flemtam.com/", and all Rounder Records links from "http://harp.rounder.com/*/rounder/" to "http://www.rounder.com/rounder/".
.10-06-1996: Deleted all "http://www.nada.kth.se:80/~f91-jsc/" ChordPro links (site closed permanently).
.09-29-1996
.09-22-1996: Our VAX crashed Sunday night, so the weekend's updates were not installed until early Tuesday morning.
.09-15-1996
.09-08-1996 Personal problems, no updates.
.09-02-1996: Added Far From Home, Bradley Fish, The Ghillies, Dennis Hawk, Ken Lonnquist, Jeff Pockat, Randy Sabien, The Snug, Wolverine Willy & the Blues Toads (all from Wisconsin); The Ultimate Band List authors have changed the URL of every file at their site for the third time since June 1995!, e.g. "http://american.recordings.com/WWWoM/cgi-bin/ubl?card+4726" is now "http://www.ubl.com/artists/004726.html", fixed 101 links in 32 files.
.08-25-1996
.08-18-1996: Added Da Capo, David HB Drake, Les Frivolants Du Sud Ouest (from Wisconsin), and White Water from Northern Michigan.
.08-04-1996: Started adding to every page, thank you links back to those who have installed links to one or more of these pages; almost half completed (artists A - G) a project to update every Artist Index File; Added a new section, "Wisconsin Concert and Venue Sites", to the Wisconsin Artists Index. [I will be at the Old Time Music & Craft Festival in Shawano, WI all next weekend enjoying live Folk Music, i.e. no updates until Aug. 18th.]
.07-28-1996
.07-21-1996: Finished adding links in blues.shtml for every artist listed at The Blue Flame Cafe and Mai Cramer's Blues Artists pages.
.07-14-1996
.07-06-1996: Installed a few updates done on the 4th of July, but had no time to update this file, or create a page containing the list of files updated; Changed all Performance itinerary links from "http://www.quest.net/performance/toursearch?xname" to "http://www.performancemag.com/toursearch?xname".
.06-30-1996: Moved all the Birthdays links on the Home Page to a new Birthday Lists; Deleted all Music World III, "http://www.mw3.com/", links as they have moved to "http://musicinteractive.com/" and "http://www.baudway.com/" password protected sites. Off-Baudway and Hot Licks video information is no longer directly linkable (actually Hot Licks moved from Baudway to "http://www.hotlicks.com/", but their pages for books by individual artists are gone); deleted all discography links to "http://anastasia.concord.wvnet.edu/covers/" (author ? w/album cover graphics) because the site disappeared. [Family doings next weekend, i.e. no updates until July 14th.]
.06-23-1996: Changed all Mammoth Music Meta-List "http://www.timeinc.com/" to "http://www.pathfinder.com/".
.06-16-1996: Added Jesse Fuller, Tom Nothnagle, David Qualey; started adding links in blues.shtml for every artist listed at The Blue Flame Cafe; for trivia buffs, this Index has now doubled in size since it was installed 11-25-1995.
.06-09-1996: Changed all UBL "http://american.recordings.com/cgi-bin" and "http://198.147.111.1/WWWoM/cgi-bin" to "http://american.recordings.com/WWWoM/cgi-bin".
.06-02-1996: For better organized Weekly Access Statistics reports, 1) stats.html was moved, 2) all the log files were renamed, e.g. log60428.html to 60428_log.html and moved [09-14-1997: all log files deleted], 3) this file, "whats_new.shtml", was moved to a new directory, "/~henkle/updates/", and 4) the new "Files updated this week" file, 60602_updates.html [deleted 09-14-1997], was put in this same new directory (the old files in "/~henkle/fbindex/updates/" will be moved there as I have time to update them).
.05-27-1996: Added a new booking4.html Promotions Firms page; Added links for every Eyeneer artist listed at that site; Added a link for every Index artist with an itinerary at Ticketmaster; Added a new section for Jazz artist lists to the Lists of Home Pages file;
Added links for every Cybergrass, Cybergrass2 artist listed at that site.
.05-19-1996: Changed all UW-Parkside Music Archives "http://music.wit.com/uwp/" mirror links to "http://ftp.uwp.edu/pub/" Music Archives links; Added a link for every indexn-z artist with an itinerary file at Dirty linen by artist (now all 713 artists in the Apr 30 listing are in the Index).
.05-12-1996: Started changing all Cardiff URL's "http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/" and "http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/" to "http://uk.imdb.com/", and all "http://www.msstate.edu/" to "http://us.imdb.com/" starting with the Films Index; Added a link for every indexa-m artist with an itinerary file at Dirty linen by artist.
.05-05-1996: Started adding Head Section tag: "link rel" to every file, to better comply with recommended HTML 2.0 compatibility standards for ease of use by as many different types of Web browsers as possible.
.04-28-1996: Added links for every Steel String Ring and Rounder: Bluegrass, Old Timey & Country artist listed at those sites.
.04-21-1996: More reorganization of the Lists of Home Pages file with new sections for Blues, Cajun-Zydeco, Celtic, Klezmer and by location artist lists; Added links for every BluesNet: Artist Summaries and Waterbug Records artist Home Page stored at those sites; Added complete running statistics for selected pages to stats.html; Added many artists to harp.shtml, and a new page harp2.shtml that lists names of all other recording artists I can find who play the harp, but for whom I can find no on-line resource.
.03-31-1996: There will be no other updates submitted until after April 15th, i.e. Sunday night the 21st. The IRS calls.
Added artist_index_files.shtml, a list of all the artist files created for this Index. Started creating artist index files for other artists for whom I have created discographies: Robbie Basho, David Cullen. If you would like an artist index file for yourself, or for your favorite artist, please create it and submit it. See help for instructions. Added a link for every Index artist with a page in the Country Connection (CC) Artist Archive; deleted all graphics from all pages to speed up page loading; Added many links for all artists in indexi.shtml; reorganized the Lists of Home Pages file with new sections for Acoustic Guitarists, Classical, Country and Native artist lists.
.03-24-1996 No updates due to a death in the family.
.03-17-1996
.03-10-1996: Added Pamela Means (from Wisconsin), indexx.shtml .
.03-03-1996: Started adding to this page the total size of the FolkLib Index after all updates installed. Changed all NOMA links from "http://www.edge.net:80/noma/" to "http://songs.com/noma/".
.02-25-1996: Added a new itin2eraries.shtml "Missing Itineraries" page explaining why all artist itinerary links do not work all the time, added many more itinerary links, many Rounder discography links, and, as usual, more other updates than I have time to detail here.
.02-18-1996: No updates last weekend due to illness. Added all birth/death dates for artists U-Z from the 1996 Bluegrass Calendar, many links for Dirty Linen and Musi-Cal itineraries, everything I have for indexu-z.shtml, etc. In case you noticed a speedup in page loading recently, that may be due to ExecPC's upgrade from a T1 to a T3 line on 2-02-1996.
.02-04-1996
.01-28-1996
.01-21-1996: Added every "name=" tag in link_tags.html to the "Types of files" included section of the Home Page ... [11-22-1998: I decided this was no longer necessary, and I do not want other sites installing confusing links to the middle of the Home Page, so I deleted them all.]; Added many links on this page to other pages; Added links for every songs.com and Soundhole artist Home Page stored at those sites.
.01-16-1996: Only added the link below to a new 60114_updates.html [deleted 09-14-1997] page which lists every page updated on 01-14-1996. Please let me know whether or not you find this new feature helpful.
.01-14-1996: Finally finished keying in everything I have about Booking Agents; Added a link for every FolkLib Index artist with a page in Yahoo; other updates far too numerous to list anywhere in detail: primarily new lists of home pages, and harp and guitar links, and everything I have for indexa-f.shtml, i.e. indexg-z.shtml still have literally hundreds of updates not keyed in yet, and only a few more of the artist's files started 01-01-1996.
.01-07-1996: Index/Types/Video Elektra; Added a link for every artist with a Home Page stored at FolkBook; started adding all artists listed at Steven Alexander's Fast Folk (FF) and (FFCR) pages [URL's changed, see 10-10-1999; Started adding a link for every FolkLib Index artist with a page in The Ultimate Band List (UBL); Added a link_tags.html page for those who wish to help by submitting new artist index files.
.01-01-1996: Moved all the Lists of Home Pages links on the Home Page to a new home_pages.shtml; Updated the copyright date, and added the actual filename to the bottom of every page [at least that was my plan, but I only got under half done (all index files, only A-B artist's files), to be continued]. Started adding dual mirror links (UK and US) in artist index files and the Film Index for those with film credits at Cardiff.
.12-10-1995: New: Weekly Access Statistics, stats.html
Started adding a "DOCTYPE HTML 2.0" comment to the top of every file because some HTML verification sites flag an error if DOCTYPE is missing. The "last updated" date will not be changed if nothing else in the file has changed.
Started changing notes like "(FB) FB)" to "(FB/2)" meaning 2 different home pages are listed for this artist at this site.
.12-03-1995: Changed all Cybergrass links from "http://www.info.net/" to "http://www.banjo.com/".
.11-30-1995: Link to this index installed in FolkBook: Acoustic Music On The 'Web / Other Online Resources... "F"
.11-25-1995 - top / bottom of page: The initial installation of the FolkLib Index includes:
1) Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitarists, Windham Hill and Wisconsin artists, and a few others, for a total of 77 artist index files. More will be added as time permits.
2) All known on-line Record Labels which feature acoustic music.
3) Information for over 800 other artists/groups who have no separate artist index file ... yet. Volunteers are needed to help create them.
4) Many special index files: Festivals, Films, Itineraries/Venues, Folk Music Periodicals and Societies.
5) Links to every FolkBook discography file.
.07-30-1995: Converted David Wilcox discography to HTML.
.01-22-1995: Updated discographies for William Ackerman, Robbie Basho, Greg Brown, and Adrian Legg. Stopped until further notice all work creating and updating discographies and started creating the Index.

11-25-1995: And, for those who have nothing better to read, or correspondents who wish to know, in detail, what I have been doing since 1-23-1995 instead of writing discographies, here is one more candidate for Yahoo's Useless Pages ... my pre-installation notes.
[1-18-1998 note: in order to free up disk space for currently useful information, I have deleted my pre-installation notes page. If you are really curious how this Index evolved between 1-23-1995 and 11-25-1995, write to me and I will send you a copy.]

URL: http://www.folklib.net/index/whats_new/
Please send additions and/or corrections to Doug Henkle: henkle@pobox.com
P.O. Box 1447, Oshkosh, WI 54903-1447

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