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Sailors' Songs & Sea Shanties
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Track Listing
- Blood Red Roses
- Dreadnought - Ewan MacColl
- Cruel Ship's Captain
- Row Bullies Row - Ewan MacColl
- Santy Anna
- Lowlands Away
- Boston Harbour - The Watersons
- Do Me Ama - A.L. Lloyd
- Handsome Cabin Boy - Ewan MacColl
- Poor Old Horse
- Sailboat 'Malarkey'
- Away Haul Away
- Coast of Peru - A.L. Lloyd
- Gauger - Ewan MacColl
- Andrew Rose
- Hundred Years Ago - A.L. Lloyd
- Gallant Frigate Amphitrite - Peter Bellamy
- Reuben Ranzo
- Flying Cloud - Ewan MacColl
- Lord Franklin
- Paddy Doyle - Ewan MacColl
- Sally Racket
- Ship in Distress - Ewan MacColl
- Haul on the Bowline - A.L. Lloyd
- Stormalong - Ewan MacColl
- Bring 'Em Down - Roy Harris
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #47236 in Music
- Released on: 2004-08-17
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .21 pounds
Customer Reviews
Salt Water on a CD
This is a collection for the true fan of the sea shanty (or chantey). The compilation is done acapella and feels as if you are on board a sailing ship in the 19th century. Eleven are sung by A. L. Lloyd, one of the foremost collectors of these songs andeight are by the late Ewan MacColl, a British folk icon.
If you want to hear and learn sea songs as they were most likely done by sailors pumping and hauling, this is a fine resource/
Authentic-sounding sea chanties
If you want to know how sea chanties originally sounded on the decks and under them back in the 18th and 19th centuries, this is an album for you. It can be a time-consuming process to sort through the load of sea chanty albums out there that when you're trying to find the traditional sound. Therefore, if you like the sound of this album I also recommend the following albums, composed by various performers including some on this album: Blow the Man Down; Round Cape Horn; Shanties & Songs of the Sea. These albums have a great mix of emotion in them, from rip-roarin' drinking songs to inspirational working songs to melancholy tunes about ships that were swallowed up by the sea.
For lovers of the sea, ships and sailors
Look at that beautiful ship on the cover ... and inside? It lists all the parts of the ship - fer ye landlubbers - from a flying jib to a main brace. Some songs are familiar - Away, Haul Away - to Bring 'em Down and a few pirate ballads to boot.
