Anyway, isn't [or wasn't] skiffle one of the recognisable and identifiable forms of folk? I should v certainly urge so. Why, I actually, tho you might not believe it to look at me now, played washboard & rhythm guitar + vocals at the Nancy Whiskey Club at the Princess Louise, in the Easy Riders Skiffle Group in 1956. Our lead guitar, John Brunner [look him up on Wikipedia] went on to become a Hugo Award winning SF writer... (tho not quite sure what that proves re skiffle=folk, at that).

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