Various Artists / Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, And Chanteys
Album: Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, And Chanteys   Collection:General
Artist:Various Artists   Added:Feb 2007
Label:Anti-  

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Add Date: 2007-04-01 Pull Date: 2007-06-03
Week Ending: Jun 3 May 27 May 20 May 13 May 6 Apr 22 Apr 15 Apr 8
Airplays: 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 6

Recent Airplay
1. Nov 18, 2023: Music Casserole
Cape Cod Girls, Dying Sailor To His Shipmates
4. Mar 22, 2013: Songs of the Sea
The Grey Funnel Line, Dying Sailor To His Shipmates
2. Mar 30, 2018: Traditions
My Son John, Mingulay Boat Song, Bully In The Alley
5. Apr 22, 2011: Wee Animalcules
Bully In The Alley, Bully In The Alley
3. Dec 31, 2017: Everything A to Z week 116 New Years Eve - reaired 11-23-20
Cape Cod Girls, Greenland Whale Fisheries
6. Sep 30, 2008: Echo Lab
The Cruel Ship's Captain

Album Review
Don Farrell
Reviewed 2007-04-02
contemporary reinterpretation of the sea chantey by BONO, STING, NICK CAVE, BRYAN FERRY, LOU REED, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, RICHARD THOMPSON, GAVIN FRIDAY, VAN DYKE PARKS, ANDREA CORR and RUFUS WAINWRIGHT and more
****1: 7:14 fast strumming guitar Tuvan throat chanty, Bill Frisell guitar, Eyvand . . Kang flue & violin, Great throat vocal
2: 4:12 Richard Thompson vocal, nice guitar, slow, about lost culture on an island off . Scotland's coast.
****3: 1:38 classic ballad "My Son John" about a man who lost a race with a . . . . cannonball.
FCC 4: 2:49 Nick Cave vocal, FCC @ 0:46-0:47 Mother fucker FCC @1:04, fucked up FCC @1:34, & 1:43 fucking, nice slow song. FCCs
5: 4:21 slow vocal
****6: 2:29 great vocal - a drunk in the alley, call & response intro, mid to fast.
7: 3:35 slow, Brian Ferry vocal about a cruel sea captain
8: 2:54 Robin Holcomb vocal, slow great back up musicians.
9: 2:21 Instrumental, Bill Frisell guitar with ambient loops, slow picking.
**10: 4:01 Joseph Arthur vocal, lots of busy instruments in background, cool sound, about Barbary pirates
11: 4:10 male vocal, slow, big instrumentation behind vocal.
FCC 12: 0:50 great sound FCC several times, distorted vocal cool sound.
***13: 2: 44 Sting vocal,about Napoleonic wars great vocal & backup instruments
14: 2:53 male vocal & guitar, slow
15: 3:25 mom & son duet, real slow
****16: 4:39 Fantastic ballad great vocal, great instrumentation
****17: 4:48 fem vocal, perspective of woman onshore about going to sea great vocal & instrumentation, mid tempo.
18: 2:22 male vocal with chorus, slow ballad about superstitions
19: 1:27 male vocal, one of the oldest chantys.
****20: Bono, a haunting ballad.
21: 3:35 fem vocal, slow & low minimal instrumentation.
22: 2:57 instrumental, slow and mournful
23: 3:05 a poem set to music, beautiful vocal, horns in @ 1:50 a saw is dominate instrument

CD 2
***1: 1: 54 fast male vocals about Napoleon Bonaparte with pounding drums & guitars.
****FCC 2: 3:14 FCC@ 0:19 sucking a dead man's penis FCC@ 0:28-0:29 shovel shit, FCC@ 2:55 sucking a dead man's penis, fast male vocal cool song
3: 2: 33 fem vocal, slow, violin, harmonium & trombone backup.
4: 3:15 Nick Cave vocal, slow, great low instrument noodling background (Bill . . . Frisell guitar, Eyvand Kang flue & violin).
5: 2:35 Brian Ferry vocal, mid tempo.
***6: 5:25 male vocal, very nice instruments in background
**7: 2:43 fast male vocal & chorus, good foot stomping tune.
**8: 1:33 spoken word wit fiddle
9: 3:58 female a cappella
10: 3:44 male vocal with omp pah pah band sound.:
***11: 3:44 classic song, male vocal, distorted sound ( cool sound ), bass, slow
12: 6:05 distorted sound ( cool sound) intro. then male vocal, piano, drum, slow.
13: 3:28 nice male vocal, big instrument backup.
***14: 5:18 male vocal, gravelly voice, great guitars, about mermaids
15: 4:40 male vocal, mid tempo, classic whaleing song
16: 2:30 Sting vocal, slow, minimal keyboard
17: 4:52 great fem vocal, slow, big instrument backup.
****18: 7:10 male vocal, slow, then big fast rock instrumentation, great sound, .. . cool story.
***19: 5:30 Lou Reed vocal & guitar, slow vocal.
***20: 5:33 male vocal , slow, story about eating the cabinboy when . . .. . .. .. shipwrecked.
D Farrell 03/2007


Track Listing
 ArtistTrack Name
1. Baby Gramps Cape Cod Girls
2. Thompson, Richard Mingulay Boat Song
3. Reilly, John C. My Son John
4. Cave, Nick Fire Down Below
5. Wainwright Iii, Loudon Turkish Revelry
6. Old Prunes, The Bully In The Alley
7. Ferry, Bryan The Cruel Ship's Captain
8. Holcomb, Robin Dead Horse
9. Frisell, Bill Spansih Ladies
10. Arthur, Joseph High Barbary
11. Thompson, Mark Anthony Haul Away Joe
12. Thomas, David Dan Dan
13. Sting Blood Red Roses
14. Thompson, Teddy Sally Brown
15. Wainwright, Rufus & Kate Mcgarrigle Lowlands Away
16. Friday, Gavin Baltimore Whores
17. Mccarthy, Eliza Rolling Sea
18. Neuwirth, Bob Haul On The Bowline
19. Bono Dying Sailor To His Shipmates
20. Williams, Lucinda Bonnie Portmore
21. Carthy, Martin & The Uk Group The Mermaid
22. Greene, Richard & Jack Shit Shenandoah
23. O'hara, Mary Margaret The Cry Of Man
24. Shit, Jack Boney
25. Wainwright Iii, Loudon Good Ship Venus
26. White Magic Long Time Ago
27. Cave, Nick Pinery Boy
28. Ferry, Bryan With Antony Lowlands Low
29. Akron / Family One Spring Morning
30. Carthy, Martin & Family Hog Eye Man
31. Jay, Ricky & Richard Greene The Fiddler / A Drop Of Nelson's Blood
32. Corr, Andrea Caroline And Her Young Sailor Bold
33. Reilly, John C. Fathom The Bowl
34. Thomas, Dave Drunken Sailor
35. Harcourt, Ed Farewell Nancy
36. Ridgway, Stan Hanging Johnny
37. Baby Gramps Old Man Of The Sea
38. Parks, Van Dyke Greenland Whale Fisheries
39. Sting Shallow Brown
40. Holland, Jolie The Grey Funnel Line
41. Cocker, Jarvis A Drop Of Nelson's Blood
42. Reed, Lou Leave Her Johnny
43. Steadman, Ralph Little Boy Billy