Description
Banjos, Tea Chests, Thimbles & Washboards:
The Great UK Skiffle Boom!
2-CD Set
64 TRACKS on 2 CDS
Nearly seventy years on, it’s impossible to convey just how big an impact SKIFFLE had upon the teenage youth of an austere, post-WWII UK. Almost exclusively British, it was propelled by home-made, DIY simplicity; a cheap, bottom-of-the-range banjo or acoustic guitar; a stand-up tea chest bass; a washboard; a handful of thimbles and a kazoo, from Woolworths (optional)! Lonnie Donegan’s Rock Island Line made the charts in January 1956, followed by The Vipers, Chas McDevitt & Nancy Whiskey, Johnny Duncan, Dickie Bishop, Alexis Korner & Cyril Davies and dozens more. This compilation features more than 40 different groups and many of the genre’s biggest hits.
THE LONNIE DONEGAN SKIFFLE GROUP / THE CHAS MCDEVITT SKIFFLE GROUP / DICKIE BISHOP & HIS SIDEKICKS / THE BOB CORT SKIFFLE GROUP / THE VIPERS SKIFFLE GROUP / JOHNNY DUNCAN & BLUE GRASS BOYS /THE AVON CITIES SKIFFLE GROUP / ALEXIS KORNER’S BREAKDOWN GROUP / THE KEN COLYER SKIFFLE GROUP / SONNY STEWART & THE SKIFFLE KINGS / THE SOHO SKIFFLE GROUP / LES HOBEAUX / THE CITY RAMBLERS SKIFFLE GROUP / THE LEA VALLEY SKIFFLE GROUP / THE OLD TIMERS SKIFFLE GROUP / THE BARNSTORMERS SPASM BAND / THE FROG ISLAND SKIFFLE GROUP / THE EDEN STREET SKIFFLE GROUP / THE ORIGINAL SOHO SKIFFLE GROUP /JIMMY JACKSON / THE 2.19 SKIFFLE GROUP / JOHNNY CHRISTMAS & THE SUNSPOTS / THE TIN PAN SKIFFLE GROUP / THE DELTA SKIFFLE GROUP / THE COFFEE BAR SKIFFLERS / BOB WALLIS’S WASHBOARD BEATERS / THE WORRIED MEN / THE CHAS MCDEVITT SKIFFLE GROUP / THE CHRIS BARBER SKIFFLE GROUP / NANCY WHISKEY & HER SKIFFLERS / THE HALLELUJAH SKIFFLE GROUP / LORRAE DESMOND & HER REBELS / THE ARTHUR BAIRD SKIFFLE GROUP / JOHNNY PARKER’S WASHBOARD BAND / THE STATION SKIFFLE GROUP /THE WESTCOTT SKIFFLE GROUP / THE DON LANG SKIFFLE GROUP /THE BRIAN NEWEY SKIFFLE GROUP/ BETTY SMITH’S SKIFFLE / BERYL BRYDEN’S BACKROOM SKIFFLE /JIMMY MILLER & THE BARBECUES / LIZ WINTERS & BOB CORT WITH THE BOB CORT SKIFFLE /JOHNNY DUNCAN & BLUE GRASS BOYS
