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
Genre
Format
CD - 1 disk
Release
01-10-2021
Label
Item-nr
551580
EAN
4250137215785
Availability
In stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
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
