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Thread #120020   Message #2607274
Posted By: GUEST,Doc John
08-Apr-09 - 09:17 AM
Thread Name: Chris Barber Skiffle Group
Subject: Chris Barber Skiffle Group
The four tracks of this group, which I used to have on a long gone EP half a century ago now and which I hadn't heard for decades, have turned up on a CD I recently bought. They still sound superb to me, even having been exposed to all kinds of folk music over the years: Dick Bishop's and Johnny Duncan's voices go together perfectly, there's no electricity but rather a mandolin, the drums are unobtrusive and Chris Barber's string base provides an excellent back ground rhythm. Nothing else was ever released but surely other tracks must have been recorded. Do any of you Old Time Skifflers or Mouldy Figs know?

Doc John