On a smaller scale, to a smaller parish, the first New Lost City Ramblers LP sent a lot of folks scrambling for old 78's and looking for roots they didn't know they had.

On a larger scale, though, how many local libraries had copies of Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music on Folkways that sent people scrambling in all sorts of directions in a frenzy of rediscovery.

The Weavers begat the Kingston Trio begat PP&M, but the Anthology got a lot of us looking for the real thing or at least what we percieved as such. All are important in pointing folks somewhere from where they could seek further. How important depends on which directions you ultimately took.