I had no problem visiting the site yesterday. Get well soon, Planet Slade!
Perhaps different people find different things interesting. Some people can even be interested in more than one thing at a time.
I don’t know what’s gone wrong with the links, but I can only assume it’s some problem at FastNet, the site’s host company. Using the full URL doesn’t seem to work at the moment either.
It’s 8:30 at night here now, so I can’t pursue the matter until tomorrow morning, but I’ll post again here as soon as soon as I’ve got some answers.
If Slade doesn’t care it’s no skin off my nose, except the part of my nose that is oversensitive to such things. But that’s my problem, not yours, and I apologize for letting it lead the direction of my reply. 
Like The Wreck of the Old 97? Or the train wreck involving a step-great-uncle that happened around the last turn of the century. There was supposedly a song, but I never pinned Grandma down about it.
There’s even folklore about folklorists. Especially down here in Texas, where Lomaxes still roam…
The thing is, my college training tells me to love BOTH Slade’s and Dr Drake’s approaches, coming at it as an English, Journalism, and Anthropology major, and as an amateur historian, especially of popular culture. That’s why I want us to all just get along. 
I’m not surprised that Lomaxes still roam Texas. What did surprise me was that Frances James Child, collector of the Child Ballads, which gave so many British Electric Folk bands of the 60s their repetoire, was a yank.
The links do not work for me either, and I’d really like to read them.
See post #22.
The site’s back up again now, and the links seem to be working. I’m told the issue was some emergency maintenance at the hosting company, but that this issue has now been resolved. Apologies for the loss of service.