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Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys

Rogue's Gallery (Anti/Epitaph 6817-2)

Rogue's Gallery
Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys

Various Artists

Anti/Epitaph 6817-2 (2CD, UK, August 21, 2006)

Produced by Hal Willner;
Executive producers: Johnny Depp, Gore Verbinski;
Business and project manager: Rachel Fox;
Layout and design: trevor@epitaph;
Cover image: Marooned, by Howard Pyle, Courtesy of The Delaware Art Museum

Tracks

CD 1CD 2
  1. Baby Gramps: Cape Cod Girls (7.14)
  2. Richard Thompson: Mingulay Boat Song (4.13)
  3. John C. Reilly: My Son John (1.38)
  4. Nick Cave: Fire Down Below (2.50)
  5. Loudon Wainwright III: Turkish Revelry (4.21)
  6. Three Pruned Men: Bully in the Alley (2.30)
  7. Bryan Ferry: The Cruel Ship's Captain (3.35)
  8. Robin Holcomb: Dead Horse (2.54)
  9. Bill Frisell: Spanish Ladies (2.22)
  10. Joseph Arthur: Cost of High Barbary (4.02)
  11. Mark Anthony Thompson: Haul Away Joe (4.10)
  12. David Thomas: Dan Dan (0.50)
  13. Sting: Blood Red Roses (2.44)
  14. Teddy Thompson: Sally Brown (2.54)
  15. Rufus Wainwright & Kate McGarrigle: Lowlands Away (3.25)
  16. Gavin Friday: Baltimore Whores (4.40)
  17. Eliza Carthy: Rolling Sea (4.49)
  18. Waterson:Carthy: The Mermaid (2.23)
  19. Bob Neuwirth: Haul on the Bowline (1.29)
  20. Bono: Dying Sailor to His Shipmates (4.44)
  21. Lucinda Williams: Bonnie Portmore (3.36)
  22. Richard Greene & Jack Shit: Shenandoah (2.58)
  23. Mary Margaret O'Hara: The Cry of Man (3.06)
  1. Jack Shit: Boney Was a Warrior (1.55)
  2. Loudon Wainwright III: Good Ship Venus (3.15)
  3. White Magic: Long Time Ago (2.35)
  4. Nick Cave: Pinery Boy (3.15)
  5. Bryan Ferry w/Antony: Lowlands Low (2.35)
  6. Akron/Family: One Spring Morning (5.25)
  7. Waterson:Carthy: Hog-Eye Man (2.44)
  8. Ricky Jay & Richard Greene: The Fiddler / A Drop of Nelson's Blood (1.34)
  9. Andrea Corr: Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold (Roud 553; Laws N17) (3.58)
  10. John C. Reilly: Fathom the Bowl (3.44)
  11. David Thomas: What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor (3.44)
  12. Ed Harcourt: Farewell Nancy (6.06)
  13. Stan Ridgway: Hanging Johnny (3.28)
  14. Baby Gramps: Old Man of the Sea (5.18)
  15. Van Dyke Parks: Greenland Whale Fisheries (4.41)
  16. Sting: Shallow Brown (2.30)
  17. Jolie Holland: The Grey Funnel Line (4.53)
  18. Jarvis Cocker: A Drop of Nelson's Blood (7.10)
  19. Lou Reed: Leave Her, Johnny (5.30)
  20. Ralph Steadman: Little Boy Billee (5.33)

All tracks traditional except
CD 2, track 14 Baby Gramps;
CD 2, track 17 Cyril Tawney

Review

James Revell Carr, UNC Greensboro:New Sea Chantey Compilations on Compact Disc, Jour. American Folklore, 2009, vol. 122 no. 484, pp. 197-217.