![]() There are detours into blue-eyed soul and country and Van stamps his powerful personality on all the material right through the album. It is a double album that puts an affectionate spin on songs connected with the skiffle era – and, unlike his 2000 live album 'The Skiffle Sessions' which featured the great Lonnie Donegan himself as well as jazz icon Chris Barber, this new record isn't just for purists. On his latest release, 'Moving On Skiffle, 77 year-old Van returns to that first love. He has often referred to skiffle as his first true musical love. Meanwhile, over the Irish Sea, a young Van Morrison was listening to Lonnie Donegan's huge hit 'Rock Island Line' and was so impressed he persuaded some of his Belfast schoolmates to start their own skiffle group with him as he turned thirteen. The Beatles emerged from John Lennon's skiffle group, The Quarrymen, and the Bee Gees' origins lay in Barry Gibb's homespun Manchester skiffle players, The Rattlesnsakes. The British skiffle craze of the 1950s only lasted a few years but it left a significant legacy. ![]()
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