Various Artists - Banjo's, Tea Chests, Thimbles & Washboards: The Great UK Skiffle Boom! [2CD]

Cat. no: JASMCD2755
Format: CD
Barcode: 604988275520
Release Date: 07 Apr 2023
Genre: Easy Listening / International

Very nearly seventy years after the event, it's impossible to convey just how big an impact skife had upon the teenaged youth of an austere, sepia-tinted, post-WW2 UK

This 2CD compilation features all the singers, strummers, strokers and scratchers at the forefront of the UK Skife Boom - more than 40 different groups/artists are featured - and includes many of the genre's biggest hits. An almost exclusively British phenomenon, propelled by home-made DIY simplicity; a cheapc banjo or acoustic guitar; a stand-up tea chest bass; a washboard; a handful of thimbles; and a kazoo, from Woolworths (optional).

Lonnie Donegan Skife Group - Rock Island Line / Chas Mcdevitt Skife Group & Nancy Whiskey - Greenback Dollar / Dickie Bishop & His Sidekicks - No Other Baby / Bob Cort Skife Group - 6-5 Special / Vipers Skife Group - Maggie May / Johnny Duncan & Blue Grass Boys - Footprints In The Snow / Avon Cities Skife Group & Ray Bush - Fisherman's Blues / Alexis Korner's Breakdown Group feat. Cyril Davies - Roundhouse Stomp / Ken Colyer Skife Group - Mule Skinner Blues / Sonny Stewart & The Skife Kings - The Northern Line / Soho Skife Group - Give Me A Big Fat Woman / Les Hobeaux - Dynamo / City Ramblers Skife Group - Keep Your Pistol Good And Loaded / Lea Valley Skife Group - Streamline Train / Old Timers Skife Group - The Woman Who Loved A Swine / Barnstormers Spasm Band - Storming The Barn / Frog Island Skife Group - Hand Me Down My Walking Cane / Eden Street Skife Group - Raise A Ruckus Tonight / Original Soho Skife Group - The Ash Grove / Jimmy Jackson - Midnight Train / The 2.19 Skife Group - Railroad Bill / Johnny Christmas & The Sunspots - I'm Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing / Tin Pan Skife Group - Poor Howard / Delta Skife Group - Ain't You Glad / Coffee Bar Skifers - Bad Man Stack-O-Lee / Bob Wallis's Washboard Beaters - Crawdad Hole / The Worried Men - Fraulein / Chas Mcdevitt Skife Group - House Of The Rising Sun / Chris Barber Skife Group feat. Dickie Bishop - Gypsy Davy / Nancy Whiskey & Her Skifers - He's Solid Gone / Lonnie Donegan & His Skife Group - Bring A Little Water, Sylvie / The Vipers Skife Group - Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O / Chas McDevitt Skife Group & Nancy Whiskey - Freight Train / Lonnie Donegan & His Skife Group - Lost John / The Vipers Skife Group - Cumberland Gap / Chris Barber Skife Group & Johnny Duncan - Where Could I Go? / City Ramblers & Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Midnight Special / Dickie Bishop with Lonnie Donegan & His Skife Group - Worried Man Blues / Original Barnstormers Spasm Band - Tiger Rag / Les Hobeaux - Mama Don't Allow / Ken Colyer Skife Group - This Sportin' Life / Bob Cort Skife Group - School Day / Sonny Stewart & The Skife Kings - Black Jack / Eden Street Skife Group - Ain't It A Shame / The Hallelujah Skife Group feat. Clinton Ford - I Saw The Light / Lorrae Desmond & Her Rebels - Preacher, Preacher / Alexis Korner's Skife Group feat. Cyril Davies - Kid Man / The Arthur Baird Skife Group - Union Train / Bob Wallis's Washboard Beaters - It's Tight Like That / Johnny Parker's Washboard Band - Canine Stomp / The Delta Skife Group - Skip To My Lou / The Avon Cities Skife Group feat. Ray Bush - This Little Light Of Mine / The 2.19 Skife Group - Union Maid / Unknown Skife Group - Washboard Special / The Station Skife Group - Steamboat Bill / The Westcott Skife Group - Good Mornin' Blues / Jimmy Jackson's Rock'n'skife - California Zephyr / The Don Lang Skife Group - Whiskey / The Brian Newey Skife Group - Toll The Bell Easy / Betty Smith's Skife - There's A Blue Ridge Round My Heart, Virginia / Beryl Bryden's Backroom Skife - Kansas City Blues / Jimmy Miller & The Barbecues - Sizzlin' Hot / Liz Winters & Bob Cort with The Bob Cort Skife - Jessamine / Johnny Duncan & Blue Grass Boys - Last Train To San Fernando

More From This Artist: Alexis Korner's Breakdown Group Alexis Korner's Skife Group Avon Cities Skife Group & Ray Bush Barnstormers Spasm Band Beryl Bryden's Backroom Skife Betty Smith's Skife Blue Grass Boys Bob Cort Skife Group Bob Wallis's Washboard Beaters Chas Mcdevitt Skife Group Chris Barber Skife Group Chris Barber Skife Group & Johnny Duncan City Ramblers & Ramblin' Jack Elliott City Ramblers Skife Group Clinton Ford Coffee Bar Skifers Cyril Davies Delta Skife Group Dickie Bishop Dickie Bishop & His Sidekicks Dickie Bishop with Lonnie Donegan & His Skife Group Eden Street Skife Group Frog Island Skife Group Jimmy Jackson Jimmy Jackson's Rock'n'skife Jimmy Miller & The Barbecues Johnny Christmas & The Sunspots Johnny Duncan Johnny Duncan & Blue Grass Boys Johnny Parker's Washboard Band Ken Colyer Skife Group Lea Valley Skife Group Les Hobeaux Liz Winters & Bob Cort with The Bob Cort Skife Lonnie Donegan & His Skife Group Lonnie Donegan Skife Group Lorrae Desmond & Her Rebels Nancy Whiskey Nancy Whiskey & Her Skifers Old Timers Skife Group Original Barnstormers Spasm Band Original Soho Skife Group Ray Bush Soho Skife Group Sonny Stewart & The Skife Kings The 2.19 Skife Group The Arthur Baird Skife Group The Avon Cities Skife Group The Brian Newey Skife Group The Delta Skife Group The Don Lang Skife Group The Hallelujah Skife Group The Station Skife Group The Vipers Skife Group The Westcott Skife Group The Worried Men Tin Pan Skife Group Unknown Skife Group Vipers Skife Group