skiffle

Now, I have to decide if this is West Coast electro skiffle or its Canadian folk influenced digital beats.

I had this weird obsession with what I thought was an obscure skiffle group from Liverpool called the Quarymen.

Before skiffle and rock ‘n’ roll there was vaudeville, plenty of it.

Anglican bell-ringers and Appalachian skiffle groups?

I love the garage-punk/skiffle rawness compared to electronic perfection.

Just as the Beatles would be no more than a skiffle band playing bars without George Martin, Stock-Aitken-Waterman is responsible for huge 80s hits from Dead or Alive, Rick Astley, Bananarama, etc..

Only after recording it did he discover that the song, or at least the version of it, was by a skiffle group called The Vipers, who released it as a single in 1958, the year after John met Paul (as it turns out, the record was, rather remarkably, produced by George Martin).

It could be a club or even a clothing store that becomes the center of a local music "scene." No one remembers Jimmy Page's skiffle band, John Paul Jones' 1965 studio sessions with a half-forgotten R&B singer, or Robert Plant's and John Bonham's first band.

It’s fascinating that this sort of convergence of all the most incredible aspects of American roots music had to take place outside of the US, create genres like Skiffle (unheard of in America), and spit out kids like Paul McCartney who would go on to “invade” America with a sound that was familiar to US ears and yet something else entirely.