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As Joe Brown (star of this summer's Agiot Festival in Corfu) wrote in his foreword to "Skiffle, The Definitive Inside Story" by Chas McDevitt (1997):
"There is no doubt in my mind that the phenomenon we know as skiffle was the most influential force in the formation of today's pop music scene, quite simply it started us all off."
Van Morrison, on Leadbelly and Lonnie Donegan, The Guardian, 5 June 2015
Other forewords by George Harrison and Mark Knopfler confirm this view. It was Lonnie Donegan's version of "I'm Alabammy Bound" that started me off (see an earlier blog posting, "Missed Opportunities; Losing the Blues" , 17 July 2010). Let me take you back...
Papa Charlie Jackson, I'm Alabama Bound
Leadbelly, Alabama Bound
(see what Jelly Roll Morton had to say about the origins of the song)
Lonnie Donegan, I'm Alabammy Bound
Louis Jordan, I'm Alabama Bound
Charley Patton, I Shall Not Be Moved
Lonnie Donegan, I Shall Not Be Moved
Lonnie Donegan, Digging My Potatoes
Lonnie Donegan, Bury My Body
Lonnie Donegan, New Buryin' Ground
Lonnie Donegan, Midnight Special
Leadbelly, Midnight Special
Leadbelly, Goodnight Irene
Lonnie Donegan, Grand Coulee Dam
Woody Guthrie, Grand Coulee Dam
Lonnie Donegan, Puttin' On the Style, etc
Lonnie Donegan, Frankie and Johnny
Lonnie Donegan, House of the Rising Sun
Josh White, House of the Rising Sun
Woody Guthrie, Hard Travelin'
Lonnie Donegan, Hard Travellin'
The Carter Family, The Wabash Cannonball
Lonnie Donegan, The Wabash Cannonball
Mark Knopfler, Donegan's Gone
Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group with Nancy Whiskey, Green Back Dollar
Freight Train (YouTube)
Chas McDevitt - Skiffle Band Member, Interview June 2013
Woodie Guthrie, Greenback Dollar
Ottilie Patterson with Chris Barber's Jazz Band, Just a Closer Walk With Thee (not skiffle, but soulful traditional jazz)
Updates (!)
Ken Colyer's Skiffle Group, Take This Hammer
Ken Colyer's Jazzmen, Down By the Riverside
Ken Colyer's Skiffle Group, Sporting Life
Ken Colyer - How Long Blues - recorded in New Orleans
A Short History of Skiffle
Sonny Stewart and His Skiffle Kings - Let Me Lie 1958
Sonny Stewart And The Dynamos - Come Along With Me
Ramblin' Jack Elliott, 1956, Talkin' Miner Blues
Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Pretty Boy Floyd
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Down by the Riverside
A 1951 curiosity:
George Melly and the Mick Mulligan Jazz Band, Rock Island Line
From 1927, Uncle Dave Macon, Sail Away Ladies
Skiffle doesn't belong in the antique shops or auction houses:
But are there any bids for my old washboard?
Recorded July 7, 1936
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