Skiffle: The Most Influential Music You’ve Never Heard of


BRADY O’CALLAHAN Sep 1


What do The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who and The Rolling Stones have in common? Members of all of these legendary rock bands were once part of skiffle groups. What does the majority of the world’s population have in common? It hasn’t ever heard of skiffle. BilIy Bragg is here to change that with his new book, Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World.

https://indypendent.org/2017/09/skiffle-the-most-influential-music-youve-never-h

I've heard of skiffle before from reading about the beginnings of the Beatles and the Stones but I've never heard any of the music itself. What was it like? Anyone got a link?