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Sailors, Ships & Chanteys

Sailors, Ships & Chanteys (KnockOut! KO-03)

Sailors, Ships & Chanteys
Louis Killen

KnockOut! KO-03 (CD, USA, 1995)

Recorded April 1995 at OMB Studios, Port Orchard, WA;
Engineers: Rob Folsom and Alicia Heaney;
Produced by Louis Killen and Margaret Osika;
Front cover photo: Louis Killen working the foredeck of the sloop “Clearwater”, 1969; by Ashley James;
Rear cover photo by Margaret Osika

Musicians

Louis Killen, vocals, concertina;
The Out-of-Shape Chanteymen: Tom Hyde, Dale Spoor, Carter Bannerman, Stephen Canright;
Carter Bannerman, mandolin

Tracks

  1. Suzy Anna (Roud 9436) (2.40)
  2. Liverpool Judies (Roud 928) (3.02)
  3. Rounding the Horn (Roud 4706) (2.53)
  4. Short Jacket & White Trousers (Roud 231; Laws N12) (2.10)
  5. The Handsome Cabin Boy (Roud 239; Laws N13) (2.33)
  6. Haul Away for Rosie (Roud 809) (2.58)
  7. Paddy West (Roud 3092) (3.14)
  8. John Rise Her Up (1.59)
  9. The Flying Cloud (Roud 1802; Laws K28) (6.45)
  10. Cruising Round Yarmouth (Roud 2432) (2.39)
  11. Shoals of Herring (Roud 13642) (3.53)
  12. Henry Martin (Roud 104; Child 250) (2.32)
  13. The Wild Goose Nation (Roud 328) (1.39)
  14. Lord Franklin (Roud 487; Laws K9) (2.38)
  15. Haul on the Bowline (Roud 652) (1.21)
  16. The Trim-Rigged Doxy (Roud 518) (2.26)
  17. The Dreadnought (Roud 924; Laws D13) (2.16)
  18. Hilo, Johnny Brown (Roud 8229) (1.25)
  19. Davy Lowston (2.59)
  20. The Leaving of Liverpool (Roud 9435) (4.56)

All tracks trad. arr. Louis Killen except
Track 11 Ewan MacColl, from the radio ballad Singing the Fishing