Skiffle

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Skiffle was a kind of do-it-yourself up-tempo country music for a while popular in Britain in the late 1950s. Lonnie Donegan was its archetypal star and instrumentation contained a washboard for percussion. Johnny Duncan's country hit 'Last Train to San Fernando' may have been an inspiration.