Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music.

The way I was singing the songs was jazz

A fantabulous night to make romance.

It's a marvelous night for a moondance!

Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

There was a conflict - the actual putting together of the reality of the situation didn't seem to gel. I'd been doing kind of a slow ballad type of thing on records, but when it came to performing, I felt I was limiting myself.