I heard an interview with Lonnie Donegan once where he said that, in the early 1950's, he discovered and learnt a lot of american folk and blues material from records that he borrowed from the American Embassy Library. He confessed that because they were totally unobtainable in the UK he sometimes 'lost' them and just paid the fine to the library! Maybe he did us all a favour. Would we have heard that music if Lonnie hadn't learnt and performed it? Would we have been so keen to hear Broonzy, Sonny Terry etc when they came over? Would the blues boom of the 1960's have occurred - a boom that some claim re-kindled American interest in the blues? Hang on, I think I'm getting a bit carried away here......