About 6 years after I first heard "Rock Island Line" and fell in love with skiffle I first started hearing old time string band music and realised where Lonnie got it all from. I wondered if he'd been to the states and picked up a lot of the old songs, and I got to meet him at Sidmouth in the Bedford about 3 years ago and asked him. He said he'd got the old records from around London, and not the USA. What you can start just by collecting old records....
Ray