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.

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

.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".

.12-04-2007

          Added Wisconsin Punk Rock Musicians, Sub-genre pages of Wisconsin Pop/Rock: Help Wanted, Oshkosh Northwestern article.

.11-25-2007: Trivia, the FolkLib Index is 12 years old today!

.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, 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.

.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.

.03-09-2007

          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
05-28-2006 WAMI Awards Show Programs (scans, long load)
05-06-2006 1997 WAMI Award Nominees (Winners unknown)
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
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 FolkLib 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.

.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 FolkLib 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 FolkLib 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 - Bayfield County, Wisconsin Musicians, and moved all links for these artists/groups in wisconsin.shtml to the new pages; Added Ashland County, Wisconsin Discography - Bayfield County, Wisconsin Discography, 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 FolkLib 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 FolkLib 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 FolkLib 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 650+ 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 FolkLib 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 the Bibliography Index, bibliog_lists.shtml; 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 a Wisconsin Music Site Map: wis.html; 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-st