Banjos Tea Chests Thimbles & Washboards: Great Uk Banjos Tea Chests Thimbles & Washboards: Great Uk CD

Very nearly seventy years after the event, it's impossible to convey just how big an impact SKIFFLE had upon the teenaged youth of an austere, sepia-tinted, post-WW2?UK. It was an almost exclusively British phenomenon, 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). It's no exaggeration to say that Lonnie Donegan's frantic 'Rock Island Line', which made the charts in January 1956, changed everything; it threw the "rule book" out of the window. Following Lonnie's breakthrough, along came The Vipers, Chas McDevitt & Nancy Whiskey, Johnny Duncan, Dickie Bishop, Alexis Korner & Cyril Davies, and dozens more. This compilation features all the singers, strummers, strokers and scratchers at the forefront of the UK Skiffle Boom - more than 40 different groups/artists are featured - and includes many of the genre's biggest hits

1. Keep Your Pistol Good and Loaded 2. The Lea Valley Skiffle Group - Streamline Train 3. The Old Timers Skiffle Group - the Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group -Rock Island Line 4. The Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group Featuring Nancy Whiskey - Greenback Dollar 5. Dickie Bishop ; His Sidekicks - No Other Baby 6. The Bob Cort Skiffle Group - 6-5 Special 7. The Vipers Skiffle Group - Maggie May 8. Johnny Duncan ; Blue Grass Boys - Footprints in the Snow 9. The Avon Cities Skiffle Group Featuring Ray Bush - Fisherman's Blues 10. Alexis Korner's Breakdown Group Featuring Cyril Davies -Roundhouse Stomp 11. The Ken Colyer Skiffle Group - Mule Skinner Blues 12. Sonny Stewart ; the Skiffle Kings - the Northern Line 13. The Soho Skiffle Group - Give Me a Big Fat Woman 14. Les Hobeaux - Dynamo 15. The City Ramblers Skiffle Group - the Woman Who Loved a Swine 16. The Barnstormers Spasm Band - Storming the Barn 17. The Frog Island Skiffle Group - Hand Me Down My Walking Cane 18. The Eden Street Skiffle Group - Raise a Ruckus Tonight 19. The Original Soho Skiffle Group - the Ash Grove 20. Jimmy Jackson - Midnight Train 21. The 2.19 Skiffle Group - Railroad Bill 22. Johnny Christmas ; the Sunspots - I'm Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing 23. The Tin Pan Skiffle Group - Poor Howard 24. The Delta Skiffle Group - Ain't You Glad 25. The Coffee Bar Skifflers - Bad Man Stack-O-Lee 26. Bob Wallis's Washboard Beaters - Crawdad Hole 27. The Worried Men - Fraulein 28. The Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group - House of the Rising Sun (New Orleans) 29. The Chris Barber Skiffle Group Featuring Dickie Bishop - Gypsy Davy 30. Nancy Whiskey ; Her Skifflers - He's Solid Gone 31. Lonnie Donegan ; His Skiffle Group - Bring a Little Water, Sylvie 32. The Vipers Skiffle Group - Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O 33. The Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group Featuring Nancy Whiskey - Freight Train 34. Lonnie Donegan ; His Skiffle Group - Lost John 35. The Vipers Skiffle Group - Cumberland Gap 36. The Chris Barber Skiffle Group Feat Johnny Duncan - Where Could I Go? 37. The City Ramblers Featuring Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Midnight Special 38. Dickie Bishop with Lonnie Donegan ; His Skiffle Group - Worried Man Blues 39. The Original Barnstormers Spasm Band - Tiger Rag 40. Les Hobeaux - Mama Don't Allow 41. The Ken Colyer Skiffle Group - This Sportin' Life 42. The Bob Cort Skiffle Group - School Day 43. Sonny Stewart ; the Skiffle Kings - Black Jack 44. The Eden Street Skiffle Group - Ain't It a Shame 45. The Hallelujah Skiffle Group Featuring Clinton Ford - I Saw the Light 46. Lorrae Desmond ; Her Rebels - Preacher, Preacher 47. Alexis Korner's Skiffle Group Featuring Cyril Davies - Kid Man 48. The Arthur Baird Skiffle Group - Union Train 49. Bob Wallis's Washboard Beaters - It's Tight Like That 50. Johnny Parker's Washboard Band - Canine Stomp 51. The Delta Skiffle Group - Skip to My Lou 52. The Avon Cities Skiffle Group Featuring Ray Bush - This Little Light of Mine 53. The 2.19 Skiffle Group - Union Maid 54. Unknown Skiffle Group - Washboard Special 55. The Station Skiffle Group - Steamboat Bill 56. The Westcott Skiffle Group - Good Mornin' Blues 57. Jimmy Jackson's Rock'n'skiffle - California Zephyr 58. The Don Lang Skiffle Group - Whiskey 59. The Brian Newey Skiffle Group - Toll the Bell Easy 60. Betty Smith's Skiffle - There's a Blue Ridge Round My Heart, Virginia 61. Beryl Bryden's Backroom Skiffle - Kansas City Blues 62. Jimmy Miller ; the Barbecues - Sizzlin' Hot 63. Liz Winters ; Bob Cort with the Bob Cort Skiffle - Jessamine 64. Johnny Duncan ; Blue Grass Boys - Last Train to San Fernando