there were a lot of pluses with skiffle. I loved that music and I still do.

If you knew Lonnie's songbook - you knew songs by Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Irish rebel songs like Kevin Barry, songs of real wit in our own music hall tradition, spirituals, Carter Family music, Irish Drinking Songs, Rhythm and Blues - in short you were into folk music.

AND it was folk music that didn't alienate 95% of the population, like some keepers of tradition seem to.