Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.
Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.
What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'
Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.
Folk is bare bones music.
I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.