Various Artists
Freight Trains, Last Trains and Rock Island Lines
Freight Trains, Last Trains and Rock Island Lines
UPC: 827565058778
Format: CD (2 disc)
Release Date: Oct 26, 2012
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Liner Note Author: Groper Odson.
The term "skiffle" first popped up in America in the 1920s, but it wasn't directly a musical term referring to the various folk, blues, and street jazz jug and string bands then popular across the country. It was instead a slang term for a house rent party, as in "we're having a skiffle this Friday night." The term vanished from use in the 1940s and most likely would have stayed gone except for its revival in 1950s Britain as a word to describe the music played by various jug and string band-like groups influenced by American blues, folk, and New Orleans street jazz. Largely through the hitmaking ability of Lonnie Donegan, whose chart-topping version of Leadbelly's "Rock Island Line" in 1955 established skiffle as both a style and a commercial viability, the style swept through the U.K., setting the stage for the first true British blues and rock & roll bands, whose arrival doomed skiffle to the back porch of pop history. This set traces the British skiffle craze across two discs, and features classic tracks from Donegan, Don Lang, the Vipers, and Alexis Korner, among others. ~ Steve Leggett
The term "skiffle" first popped up in America in the 1920s, but it wasn't directly a musical term referring to the various folk, blues, and street jazz jug and string bands then popular across the country. It was instead a slang term for a house rent party, as in "we're having a skiffle this Friday night." The term vanished from use in the 1940s and most likely would have stayed gone except for its revival in 1950s Britain as a word to describe the music played by various jug and string band-like groups influenced by American blues, folk, and New Orleans street jazz. Largely through the hitmaking ability of Lonnie Donegan, whose chart-topping version of Leadbelly's "Rock Island Line" in 1955 established skiffle as both a style and a commercial viability, the style swept through the U.K., setting the stage for the first true British blues and rock & roll bands, whose arrival doomed skiffle to the back porch of pop history. This set traces the British skiffle craze across two discs, and features classic tracks from Donegan, Don Lang, the Vipers, and Alexis Korner, among others. ~ Steve Leggett
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - Rock Island Line
2 - Johnny-O
3 - It Takes a Worried Man
4 - Rock Me
5 - Doin' My Time
6 - Pick a Bale of Cotton
7 - Midnight Special
8 - Precious Memories
9 - Railroad Bill
10 - This Little Light of Mine
11 - You Won't Be Around
12 - Crawdad Hole
13 - Lost John
14 - Up There
15 - Steamboat Bill
16 - Whiskey
17 - Toll the Bell Easy
18 - Raise a Ruckus Tonight
19 - Kid Man
20 - Green Corn
21 - California Zephyr
22 - Can't You Line 'Em?
23 - New Orleans
24 - Boodle-Am-Shake
25 - Mama Don't Allow
26 - Roadhouse Stomp
27 - Six-Five Special
28 - Wabash Cannonball
29 - Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O
30 - Last Train to San Fernando
Disc 2:
1 - Freight Train
2 - Diggin' My Potatoes
3 - Blue Blue Heartache
4 - (I'm Gonna) Sing Sing Sing
5 - Preacher, Preacher
6 - Casey Jones
7 - Sportin' Life
8 - Steamline Train
9 - Oh Mary Don't You Weep
10 - No Other Baby
11 - K.C. Moan
12 - Good Mornin' Blues
13 - Badman Stackolee
14 - Canine Stomp
15 - Skip to My Lou
16 - 2.19 Blues
17 - It's Tight Like That
18 - Down by the Riverside
19 - Union Maid
20 - Mr. & Mrs. Mississippi
21 - Fraulein
22 - I'm Gonna Walk and Talk with Jesus
23 - Hugged My Honey
24 - By and By
25 - This Train
26 - Sizzlin' Hot
27 - Footprints in the Snow
28 - Stormin' the Barn
29 - Puttin' on the Style
30 - Cumberland Gap
1 - Rock Island Line
2 - Johnny-O
3 - It Takes a Worried Man
4 - Rock Me
5 - Doin' My Time
6 - Pick a Bale of Cotton
7 - Midnight Special
8 - Precious Memories
9 - Railroad Bill
10 - This Little Light of Mine
11 - You Won't Be Around
12 - Crawdad Hole
13 - Lost John
14 - Up There
15 - Steamboat Bill
16 - Whiskey
17 - Toll the Bell Easy
18 - Raise a Ruckus Tonight
19 - Kid Man
20 - Green Corn
21 - California Zephyr
22 - Can't You Line 'Em?
23 - New Orleans
24 - Boodle-Am-Shake
25 - Mama Don't Allow
26 - Roadhouse Stomp
27 - Six-Five Special
28 - Wabash Cannonball
29 - Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O
30 - Last Train to San Fernando
Disc 2:
1 - Freight Train
2 - Diggin' My Potatoes
3 - Blue Blue Heartache
4 - (I'm Gonna) Sing Sing Sing
5 - Preacher, Preacher
6 - Casey Jones
7 - Sportin' Life
8 - Steamline Train
9 - Oh Mary Don't You Weep
10 - No Other Baby
11 - K.C. Moan
12 - Good Mornin' Blues
13 - Badman Stackolee
14 - Canine Stomp
15 - Skip to My Lou
16 - 2.19 Blues
17 - It's Tight Like That
18 - Down by the Riverside
19 - Union Maid
20 - Mr. & Mrs. Mississippi
21 - Fraulein
22 - I'm Gonna Walk and Talk with Jesus
23 - Hugged My Honey
24 - By and By
25 - This Train
26 - Sizzlin' Hot
27 - Footprints in the Snow
28 - Stormin' the Barn
29 - Puttin' on the Style
30 - Cumberland Gap