Skiffle Bands / Various Skiffle Bands / Various CD

The skiffle band-a kind of ensemble that nearly disappeared after the 1920s-uses homemade or inexpensive instruments, including washboards, harmonicas, jugs, washtub basses, kazoos, tin flutes, woodblocks, and slide whistles to play a variety of songs. The recordings featured here were made between 1954 and 1957, and the musicians are mostly older men.

1. Raise a Ruckus Tonight 2. Rock Me, Baby 3. My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean 4. Trouble, Trouble Followed Me All of My Days 5. Interview with Virgil Perkins 6. Goin Around the Mountain, Darlin' Bessie 7. John Henry 8. Harmonica Blues 9. Tippin' Round 10. Interview and Solos: A. Old John Booker, You Call That Gone 11. What You Gonna Do, Baby, When Your Troubles Get Like Mine 12. Interview with Will Shade and Charlie Burse 13. Take Your Fingers Off It