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ALBUM REVIEW: Van Morrison digs U.K. love for Americana on ‘Moving on Skiffle’
Van Morrison, “Moving on Skiffle.” Van Morrison wasn’t around when skiffle music first originated in the U.S. in the early 1900s, blending jazz, blues, bluegrass and folk, often played on handmade instruments like washboards, jugs and cigar-box fiddles in addition to guitars and banjos. But growing up in Northern…