The Album Club choice for March 2017, comes courtesy of Grant (struth) who has stepped in with his suggestion: 'The Skiffle Sessions, Live in Belfast', featuring Van Morrison, Lonnie Donegan and Chris Barber.

As always please listen to the album in its entirety before you comment and/or vote.



The Skiffle Sessions



The Skiffle Sessions – Live In Belfast 1998 is a live album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, with Lonnie Donegan and Chris Barber, released in 2000 (see 2000 in music). Lonnie Donegan had played with the Chris Barber jazz band when he had his first hit with "Rock Island Line"/"John Henry" in 1955. He had been a childhood influence on Van Morrison, who had first performed in his own skiffle band with schoolmates when he was twelve years old in Belfast, Northern Ireland. This would be Donegan's first studio album in twenty years; reviving his career until his death in 2002.

Track list.

"It Takes a Worried Man" – 3:40
"Lost John" – 3:33
"Goin' Home" (Antonín Dvořák) – 3:08
"Good Morning Blues" (Lead Belly, John Lomax) – 2:52
"Outskirts of Town" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 4:20
"Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O" – 1:51
"Alabamy Bound" (Buddy DeSylva, Bud Green, Ray Henderson) – 2:22
"Midnight Special" – 2:53
"Dead or Alive" (Woody Guthrie) – 2:33
"Frankie and Johnny" – 4:31
"Goodnight Irene" (Lead Belly, Lomax) – 2:46
"Railroad Bill" – 1:57
"Muleskinner Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers, George Vaughn) – 3:06
"The Ballad of Jesse James" – 3:07
"I Wanna Go Home" – 3:46


Personnel

Van Morrison – vocal, acoustic guitar
Lonnie Donegan – vocal, acoustic guitar
Chris Barber – vocal, trombone, double bass
Paul Henry, Big Jim Sullivan – acoustic guitar
Nick Payne – harmonica, saxophone, background vocal
Dr. John – piano
Nicky Scott, Chris Hunt – electric bass
Alan "Sticky" Wicket – washboard, percussion


Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/album/1f9WJoiZClviYftoA2UPIJ