Chas McDevitt

Along with Lonnie Donegan, Chas McDevitt was one of the only original British skiffle acts to break into the American charts in the 1950s and is also in that select list of artists who were still playing on, the same style of music, over fifty years later. His most famous hit was the archetypal skiffle track, Freight Train which reached no.5 in the charts at the height of the craze in the summer of 1957. He was born Charles James McDevitt in Glasgow on the 4th December 1934 and the family moved south to London at the start of the Second World War. During a prolonged bout o...