29
Jan
AP News: Sea Shanties Are Having a Moment Amid Isolation of Pandemic
"If we can sing, it'll help us get through it, just like sailors did on the tall
1 min read
Sea Songs & Shanties
Sea shanties and sea songs: work songs sung aboard boats to coordinate effort: hauling lines, weighing anchor, working the pumps, and rowing. Alongside these are maritime ballads, less call-and-response and stronger on the narrative.
19
Jan
Boston Harbor
The Song
This is a classic sea shanty that taps into a universal topic in worksongs - calling out a
3 min read
05
Mar
Cape Cod Girls
2 min read
27
Mar
Essequibo River
Essequibo River 0:00/220.9921×
The other day at Bagaduce Music I had the good fortune of a student
3 min read
05
Mar
General Taylor (aka Stormy aka Walk Him Along)
DECDF Workshop 20260:00/01×
I sing this slower while rowing than I do in a pub session on account
1 min read
07
Mar
Haul on the Bowline
One of the oldest and shortest of all sea shanties. "Haul on the Bowline" is a short-drag shanty,
2 min read
21
Mar
Hog's Eye Man
1 min read
04
Mar
Huckleberry Hunting
1 min read
20
May
NPR / Maine Public: Mainers Are Working To Give Historical Sea Chanties New Life
Ari Snider of Maine Public came out in spring 2019 to talk about sea shanties: where they came from, why
05
Mar
One More Day
3 min read
05
Mar
Reuben Ranzo
3 min read
21
Mar
Roll and Go
2 min read
05
Mar
Roll Boys Roll - Sally Brown
2 min read
20
Apr
Roll the Old Chariot Along
3 min read
05
Mar
Roll The Woodpile Down
1 min read
21
Mar
Rolling Home to Old New England
1 min read
21
Mar
Santyanna
1 min read
04
Mar
Stormalong And Around We'll Go
1 min read
21
Mar
The Wellerman
2 min read
25
Apr
The White Whale
By Bennett Konesni
3/11/2008
Guitar & Lead Vocal: Bennett Konesni
Fiddle: Mia Friedman
Cello: Ariel Friedman
Mandolin &
2 min read
20
Mar
Walk Along Talk Along
A walking song / sea shanty from Carrie Grover, who walked from Halifax to New Brunswick to Maine with her father
1 min read