"The founding fathers of British Rock: (l to r) Ken Colyer, Alexis Korner, Lonnie Donegan, Bill Colyer (seated) and Chris Barber play together in Ken Colyer's Skiffle Group, 1953." From Roots, ...

Cass McCombs keeps up his prolific streak with a new project called The Skiffle Players that also includes Dave Scher and Aaron Sperske of Beachwood Sparks, Neal Casal (Phil Lesh & Friends, Chris ...

In the same way that Blur's pert, smart backsides will always spring to mind when the term Britpop is mentioned, skiffle is associated almost entirely with one man. That Lonnie Donegan was as ...

I’ve never fallen under the spell of skiffle. It’s possibly a generational thing – Lonnie Donegan and co were very much legacy figures by the time my listening ears tuned in. Skiffle seemed a ...

Growing up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Van Morrison would hang out at his local record shop, Atlantic Records, and consume all the early 20th century blues, jazz, and folk from the likes of Jelly ...

“Skiffle” is a genre of music from turn of the last century New Orleans. It is a conglomerate/derivative form of music that was used to embrace the differnet ...

The word skiffle dates from the 1920s - although it is a cause of some argument as to who coined it and how it stuck to the music it now describes. Some say it came from a 1929 track, authors unknown, ...

The Ugly Dog Skiffle Combo's desire to be innovative while having fun has led to some of its members making their own instruments in a bid to get its audience's feet tapping. Wayne Beauchamp tells us ...

Skiffle reached its apogee in 1957. The blandness of a hit parade dominated by crooners and novelty songs was disrupted not just by Lonnie Donegan’s several successful follow-ups to “Rock Island Line” ...