Title: Sea Chanties & Forecastle Songs at Mystic Seaport Artist: Stuart M. Frank Label: Folkways Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 093073730028 Genre: Country, Folk Release Date: 2012-05-30 Number of Discs: 1
This album features classic sea shanties from the 19th century, "sung in the traditional manner, accompanied on historic 19th-century instruments, and recorded aboard historic sailing ships" at the Mystic Seaport Maritime Museum. Shanties were sung to make the heavy labor aboard merchant sailing vessels more coordinated, efficient, and lighter. "To hear a good yarn, and sing out a lively, rowdy chorus, was far more pleasurable" than listening to the Bosun yelling orders. Liner notes include background on chanties, song lyrics, and black-and-white photographs of sailors.
Tracks: 1.1 Hanging Johnny 1.2 John Kanaka 1.3 Rueben Ranzo 1.4 The Wild Goose 1.5 Roll the Cotton Down 1.6 Blood Red Roses 1.7 A Hundred Years Ago 1.8 Tommy's Gone to Hilo 1.9 Haul Away for Rosie-O 1.10 Billy Riley / Sally Racket (Medley) 1.11 Goodbye, Fare Ye Well 1.12 Shenandoah 1.13 Santa Anna 1.14 Can Ye Dance the Polka 1.15 Sally Brown 1.16 One More Day 1.17 Paddy on the Railway 1.18 The Weary Whaling Grounds 1.19 The Balaena 1.20 The Handsome Cabin Boy 1.21 Liverpool Judies 1.22 Paddy and the Whale 1.23 Traditional Reel 1.24 Mystic River Hornpipe 1.25 Traditional Jig 1.26 The Bold Harpooner 1.27 The Coast of Peru 1.28 Blow Ye Winds Westerly 1.29 Maid of Amsterdam 1.30 Greenland Whale Fisheries 1.31 Ten Penny Bit 1.32 Belfast Hornpipe 1.33 The Forester 1.34 The Bold Benjamin
