LONNIE DONEGAN – SHOWCASE (180 GR)

Reissue of Lonnie’s debut album from 1956, on Pye Records, that made him “the Man” in England (to quote Paul McCartney). In that year in England he was not only England’s premier bluesman, but was also one of the first rock’n’roll stars in the mode of Elvis Presley. He had invented a new style of music, skiffle, and every teenager in Britain was racing out to the record shops to snap up anything the man recorded, and were all buying guitars to be in a skiffle band.