Lest it be forgotten Martin Carthy also started out as a skiffle man.
Carthy's influence on Dylan was considerable.
Skiffle has directly or indirectly served as a catalyst for so much fine music & has never really gone away.
I'm pleased to say.
Where else could you simultaneously gain an access point to the music of Leadbelly AND George Formby?
And people thought the sixties were surreal?!?