Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group – Showcase (Remastered) (1956/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:15:59 minutes | 622 MB | Genre: Rock, Blues, Jazz
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An exciting mix of styles, especially for a formative mid Fifties album – several of the tracks are the typically energetic Skiffle songs that made Lonnie a star in the first place and several others are much more downbeat and slower. We see him even attempt a track with jazz backing in “How Long, How Long Blues”. Honestly, it’s a little peculiar. Lonnie combines jazz and blues in such a rickety and loose way that it almost falls apart at several moments. Thankfully, the sheer bizarre nature of the track keeps it all together. The other weaker moment is the short “I’m Alabammy Bound” – too repetitive and bare to stir more than brief notice from me, but still short enough to not become filler.
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Lonnie Donegan – Lonnie Donegan (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:25 minutes | 952 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Anthony James Donegan MBE (29 April 1931 – 3 November 2002), known as Lonnie Donegan, was a British skiffle singer, songwriter and musician, referred to as the “King of Skiffle”, who influenced 1960s British pop and rock musicians.Born in Scotland and raised in England, he was Britain’s most successful and influential recording artist before the Beatles.
Donegan had 31 UK top 30 hit singles, 24 being successive and three at number one. He was the first British male singer with two US top 10 hits. Donegan received an Ivor Novello lifetime achievement award in 1995[5] and, in 2000, he was made an MBE.
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