Skiffle

bazbear Earth Posts: 248	Skiffle Feb 5, 2009 17:57:48 GMT -4 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by bazbear on Feb 5, 2009 17:57:48 GMT -4 What is skiffle? Cross bred, cross ocean anglo/yank folk?
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Jason Pluto May all your hits be crits Posts: 5,579	Skiffle Feb 6, 2009 0:41:45 GMT -4 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jason on Feb 6, 2009 0:41:45 GMT -4 I thought you were talking about those chewy candies. Isn't Skiffle what the Beatles were playing when they were the Quarrymen?
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Post by Obviousman on Feb 6, 2009 4:31:10 GMT -4

Feb 6, 2009 0:41:45 GMT -4 Jason said:

I thought you were talking about those chewy candies.

Isn't Skiffle what the Beatles were playing when they were the Quarrymen?

Yep.

Skiffle is a type of folk music with jazz, blues and country influences, usually using homemade or improvised instruments such as the washboard, tea chest bass, kazoo, cigar-box fiddle, musical saw, comb and paper, and so forth, as well as more conventional instruments such as acoustic guitar and banjo. Skiffle and jug band music are closely related. Skiffle was particularly popular in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Skiffle's use of country, folk and blues influences mixed with a much faster tempo, electric instrumentation and wild, energetic performances has led some people to suggest it as an early form of rock & roll, very similar to rockabilly.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiffle

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captain swoop Earth Posts: 191	Skiffle Feb 9, 2009 19:18:19 GMT -4 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by captain swoop on Feb 9, 2009 19:18:19 GMT -4 Lonnie Donegan being the best known of the UK Skiffle artists.

Post by bazbear on Feb 5, 2009 17:57:48 GMT -4

Post by Ginnie on Feb 5, 2009 21:01:21 GMT -4

Post by Jason on Feb 6, 2009 0:41:45 GMT -4

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Post by captain swoop on Feb 9, 2009 19:18:19 GMT -4