Without skiffle music, The Beatles might not have happened. Never heard of it? Popular in Britain in the 1950s, the music craze was heavily influenced by old American blues and jug band music, and ...

"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, ...

Singer/songwriter Billy Bragg gained fame as a punk rock and folk musician in the 1980s. Now nearing 60, he’s still singing songs of protest and passion, but also singing the gospel of skiffle, a folk ...

Music is often cyclical but not always chronological, which was certainly the case when the man who helped put skiffle on the map (and was a fundamental influence on the future Beatles) died in 2002, ...

When World War II ended for Britain, so did the trappings of a traditional working-class identity. Full employment coupled with expansive welfare provisions diluted a historical class consciousness ...

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 the music that time forgot, and Billy Bragg thinks it’s high time we knew a lot more about it. He’s been a big fan for years, and now he’s written a lively history of this neglected genre - ...

It's hard to believe, but before the 1950s, guitars were rarely heard in British music. Billy Bragg says the first guitars to hit the British pop scene came as a part of skiffle, a musical movement ...

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 ...

“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 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 ...