Description

Cat. no: JASMCD2755
Format: CD
Barcode: 604988275520
Release Date: 07 Apr 2023
Genre: Easy Listening / International

Very nearly seventy years after the event, it’s impossible to convey just how big an impact skife had upon the teenaged youth of an austere, sepia-tinted, post-WW2 UK

This 2CD compilation features all the singers, strummers, strokers and scratchers at the forefront of the UK Skife Boom – more than 40 different groups/artists are featured – and includes many of the genre’s biggest hits. An almost exclusively British phenomenon, propelled by home-made DIY simplicity; a cheapc banjo or acoustic guitar; a stand-up tea chest bass; a washboard; a handful of thimbles; and a kazoo, from Woolworths (optional).

Lonnie Donegan Skife Group – Rock Island Line / Chas Mcdevitt Skife Group & Nancy Whiskey – Greenback Dollar / Dickie Bishop & His Sidekicks – No Other Baby / Bob Cort Skife Group – 6-5 Special / Vipers Skife Group – Maggie May / Johnny Duncan & Blue Grass Boys – Footprints In The Snow / Avon Cities Skife Group & Ray Bush – Fisherman’s Blues / Alexis Korner’s Breakdown Group feat. Cyril Davies – Roundhouse Stomp / Ken Colyer Skife Group – Mule Skinner Blues / Sonny Stewart & The Skife Kings – The Northern Line / Soho Skife Group – Give Me A Big Fat Woman / Les Hobeaux – Dynamo / City Ramblers Skife Group – Keep Your Pistol Good And Loaded / Lea Valley Skife Group – Streamline Train / Old Timers Skife Group – The Woman Who Loved A Swine / Barnstormers Spasm Band – Storming The Barn / Frog Island Skife Group – Hand Me Down My Walking Cane / Eden Street Skife Group – Raise A Ruckus Tonight / Original Soho Skife Group – The Ash Grove / Jimmy Jackson – Midnight Train / The 2.19 Skife Group – Railroad Bill / Johnny Christmas & The Sunspots – I’m Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing / Tin Pan Skife Group – Poor Howard / Delta Skife Group – Ain’t You Glad / Coffee Bar Skifers – Bad Man Stack-O-Lee / Bob Wallis’s Washboard Beaters – Crawdad Hole / The Worried Men – Fraulein / Chas Mcdevitt Skife Group – House Of The Rising Sun / Chris Barber Skife Group feat. Dickie Bishop – Gypsy Davy / Nancy Whiskey & Her Skifers – He’s Solid Gone / Lonnie Donegan & His Skife Group – Bring A Little Water, Sylvie / The Vipers Skife Group – Don’t You Rock Me Daddy-O / Chas McDevitt Skife Group & Nancy Whiskey – Freight Train / Lonnie Donegan & His Skife Group – Lost John / The Vipers Skife Group – Cumberland Gap / Chris Barber Skife Group & Johnny Duncan – Where Could I Go? / City Ramblers & Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – Midnight Special / Dickie Bishop with Lonnie Donegan & His Skife Group – Worried Man Blues / Original Barnstormers Spasm Band – Tiger Rag / Les Hobeaux – Mama Don’t Allow / Ken Colyer Skife Group – This Sportin’ Life / Bob Cort Skife Group – School Day / Sonny Stewart & The Skife Kings – Black Jack / Eden Street Skife Group – Ain’t It A Shame / The Hallelujah Skife Group feat. Clinton Ford – I Saw The Light / Lorrae Desmond & Her Rebels – Preacher, Preacher / Alexis Korner’s Skife Group feat. Cyril Davies – Kid Man / The Arthur Baird Skife Group – Union Train / Bob Wallis’s Washboard Beaters – It’s Tight Like That / Johnny Parker’s Washboard Band – Canine Stomp / The Delta Skife Group – Skip To My Lou / The Avon Cities Skife Group feat. Ray Bush – This Little Light Of Mine / The 2.19 Skife Group – Union Maid / Unknown Skife Group – Washboard Special / The Station Skife Group – Steamboat Bill / The Westcott Skife Group – Good Mornin’ Blues / Jimmy Jackson’s Rock’n’skife – California Zephyr / The Don Lang Skife Group – Whiskey / The Brian Newey Skife Group – Toll The Bell Easy / Betty Smith’s Skife – There’s A Blue Ridge Round My Heart, Virginia / Beryl Bryden’s Backroom Skife – Kansas City Blues / Jimmy Miller & The Barbecues – Sizzlin’ Hot / Liz Winters & Bob Cort with The Bob Cort Skife – Jessamine / Johnny Duncan & Blue Grass Boys – Last Train To San Fernando