I think you are right about KTs influence in te UK I was not born until 64 so do not know for sure, I was influenced by my Dads music and he had been sateside a lot between 57 and 61 and listened to a lot of American music as he preferred ballads, not the more frivolous songs in the rock n roll and pop at that time. I know he had access to Pete Seeger and other singers who were blacklisted in the States because he travelled all over the atlantic coasts.

I have never said that the Kingston Trio were not important, just that others influenced them and a lot of singers since, Bruce Springsteen cites Woody Guthrie as an influence, as do a lot of other Rock/folk singer/songwriters, as he was around a long time before KT maybe a few of you should widen your views