Title: Skiffle Bands / Various Artist: Various Artists Label: Folkways Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 093070261020 Genre: Country, Folk Release Date: 2012-05-30 Number of Discs: 1
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.
Tracks: 1.1 Raise a Ruckus Tonight 1.2 Rock Me, Baby 1.3 My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean 1.4 Trouble, Trouble Followed Me All of My Days 1.5 Interview with Virgil Perkins 1.6 Goin Around the Mountain, Darlin' Bessie 1.7 John Henry 1.8 Harmonica Blues 1.9 Tippin' Round 1.10 Interview and Solos: A. Old John Booker, You Call That Gone 1.11 What You Gonna Do, Baby, When Your Troubles Get Like Mine 1.12 Interview with Will Shade and Charlie Burse 1.13 Take Your Fingers Off It
