Chris Barber

[steve]

Steve's dead right. On Peeling Back The Years JP said that "Traditional Jazz At The Royal Festival Hall" was the first LP he ever bought - and then Walters plays a snippet featuring Chris Barber (and Lonnie Donegan). For more details, see the transcript at the wiki (you need to scroll down a bit):
http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Peeling_Back_The_Years_1_%28Transcript%29

More on the record:
http://www.chrisbarber.net/covers/cover-030.htm

Should also be mentioned that a Ken Colyer EP (featuring both Barber and Lonnie D) was found in John Peel's Record Box:
http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/John_Peel%27s_Record_Box

Think it was the Donegan connection that was the big attraction.

SW


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "So It Goes 2512" <so_it_goes_2512@...> wrote:
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> A quick search on the Wiki turned up more than a couple of hits, with the live 'Oh Didn't He Ramble' seeming to feature quite prominently.
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> Steve (TK)
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> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "JT GRAY" <jt.gray@> wrote:
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> > Might seem a long stretch to our John, but I recorded both episodes of the recent programmes about Chris Barber on Radio 2, and have just been listening to the first one.  Some familiar themes - an escape from post-war austerity; a schoolboy spending his bus fare to buy records; having to seek out shops that sold them because jazz was still an underground scene; enthusiasts wanting to play the music for themselves regardless of how well, or how badly they could actually play.  And Barber himself was a pioneer with far reaching influence - from his band came Lonnie Donegan, and so skiffle, and then Alexis Korner, and so the British blues scene, the Stones, the Yardbirds et al.
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> > And so endeth the (history) lesson.
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> > John Gray
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