THE VIPERS SKIFFLE GROUP Pick A Bale Of Cotton

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This is the somewhat faster version of the old Leadbelly number. Used these days for boppin' at Rockabilly / Rock Roll dances here in the UK and Europe.

For Skiffle see here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiffle

The UK "borrowed" skiffle from the US and then exported it back there.

From the same period :

At the risk of sounding insular I spent most of my life thinking that the song referred to the UK because we've got both Cumberland and Middlesborough here. That was until when I was over your side 2002 and wandered off down to Monticello KY to visit a friend's father and we went swimming in Lake Cumberland - once just a stream now a lake.

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Beautiful thread.
Love how the UK taught us to appreciate US music.
Weird.
Maybe something about familiarity breeding something.