Roots, Radicals and Rockers by Billy Bragg covers SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic

SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different world

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Roots, Radicals and Rockers by Billy Bragg covers SHOGUN is a stunningly dramaticSkiffle, the subject of Billy Braggs new book, is a neglected genre, said Ludovic Hunter Tilney in the Financial Times. A stripped down fusion of jazz, blues and folk, today it is associated mainly with duffle coats, washboards and epic bouts of coffee drinking and is surrounded by a tang of embarrassment. Yet in its heyday in the late 1950s, it was immensely popular, and played a crucial role in the development of British pop. As Billy Bragg points