This is a great thread! for me. If my old brain serves me well - Reading in the Royal County - was the very place where in 1984/5 the American Banjo became the City's latest and greatest revolution, not overtaking Mick Jagger another local product. There were at least two folk bands providing bloggle. Later - 87 I think, there arrived one duet from the west, a genuine US Fiddler and a local lad - gone wrong through the acquisition of a SS Stewart Banjo: whenandwerever they played folks wanted to dance so later - muuuch later - other oh I am hacked - ok - better bands arose and so began the great invasion of 'Jiggle Dancin' also known in the local millieuxs - Appalasian and Ozark Mtns as 'Chigger Stomping'.

Happy then am I to learn that the seed of Pete Seger's books' students' miss thumbing hath borne cloggie fruit in the city of Cook kooo - and the Doe which fartheth!