portrait of this blog's author - by Stephen Blackman 2008

Saturday, February 08, 2020

LONNIE DONEGAN


Aw heck! No I've gone wandering about t'internetwebbie thingamabob and found this. An early hero, (the earliest?) and I adored everything this man did from My Old Man's a Dustman (word perfect) to his sessions with old friends Van Morrison and Chris Barber
This is where it really started for me and  . . . . . . 'twas ever thus. Say what you like but jeans hanging off bottoms and trainers the size of canal boats all came from the same place as drapes and crepe souled shoes or 'brothel creepers' long hair and velvet loons! It was all the same stuff . . . .and still is

and here's why

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