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By David O’Connell

Rappahannock News Staff Writer

There’s a Street Legal for everyone, it seems. Norwegians have their own Street Legal: a progressive rock band consisting of two Bjorns, and somewhat more incongruously, a guy named Ken.

Moving on toward the Atlantic, there’s a Street Legal in Britain. This sextet is a staple of the East Anglian folk circuit, despite their insistence on mixing bluegrass and sea shanties with “humorous recitations, sometimes delivered in a strong Suffolk dialect.”

Sadly, until 2002 you could no sooner get a Street Legal to play a rock-tinged form of reggae than you could’ve persuaded George Orwell to write a cheery, optimistic novel about the future. But then a man named David Mark Josefsky broke those reggae-phobic chains and formed the Northern Virginia-based quartet Street Legal.

The original lineup didn’t endure for long, though.

“Dave started the band with completely different musicians,” says percussionist John Beckstoffer, who joined in 2004 along with two Fauquier High School grads - bassist Aaron Weber Lynch and drummer Phil Hughes. “I’d always go to

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