Townley, John

The Sailor & The Mermaid

This is a rough-hewn collection of the kind of knockabout songs that seamen have always carried along with them at work and pleasure, at sea and on shore. The material is splashed together like a shanghaied checkerboard crew, and so is the recording, the first fifteen tracks a spontaneous accident in Liverpool which took just three days - with myself as skipper, mate and crew and engineer Bob Buckle as supercargo. The rest were recorded in Poland, in Warsaw and Gdansk (except for two in Liverpool, with Zawisza Czarnys performing crew), in partnership with Marek Siurawski, the original main spinner of the Polish shanty movement, still evolving and in full swing today.

Price
€ 17.00
Genre
Format
CD - 1 disk
Release date
01-10-2021
Label
Item-nr
551580
EAN
4250137215785
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. MARCO POLO
2. STRIKE THE BELL
3. THE TOPMAN AND THE AFTERGUARD
4. THE BULLY SONG
5. THE LASS THAT LOVES A SAILOR
6. ESSEQUIBO RIVER
7. ROW ON
8. SHINEO
9. THE SAILORS FAREWELL/NANCY DAWSON/ROUGUES MARCH
10. THE HOG EYE MAN
11. BOUNDING BILLOWS
12. BLOOD RED ROSES
13. BULLY IN THE ALLEY
14. THE CUMBERLANDS CREW
15. RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS
16. SYRENKA WARSZAWSKA
17. THE BOATMAN DANCE
18. IS THE BY
19. ROSE OF ALABAMA
20. BOSTON HARBOR
21. GRANISCZNA GRUMBLE/LOMIANKI WLATZ
22. RUN, COME SEE
23. MAGGIES TOAST