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The 1st Album recorded in August 2000 in Port Isaac, Cornwall, by Gerard O'Farrel.
Included are 25 tracks of sea songs and shanties.
The songs are sung acapello with such energy and wonderful harmonies that you will be able to imagine yourself in Port Isaac for one of their regular concerts through the summer at the top of the beach.
Here is the track listing:
1.Shanty Man
2.Mister Stormalong
3.Le Capitaine de St Malo
4.Bully In the Alley
5.Cape Cod Girls
6.John Cherokee
7.Essequibo River
8.The Last Leviathan
9.South Australia
10.Sloop John B
11.The Noah's Ark Shanty
12.A Sailor ain't a Sailor
13.John Kanaka
14.Roll the Old Chariots Along
15.Johnny Come Down to Hilo
16.Challo Brown
17.Haul Away Joe
18.Roll the Woodpile Down
19.Waiting for the Day
20.Shenandoah
21.The Sailor's Alphabet
22.Fire Maringo
23.Chicken on a Raft
24.The Wild Goose Shanty
25.This Dreadful Life
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
This CD by Fisherman's Friends, a ten-man sea shanty group from Port Isaac in Cornwall, is the first one of four, which they made in 2000. Their enjoyment of singing really comes over and they use their voices to great effect. This wonderful, a capella group have such beautiful harmonies and are naturally musical hence the obvious enjoyment. They forget the words a couple of times but are able to carry on regardless. There are so many which are my favourites on this CD including "Shanty Man" which they sing so well and "Sloop John B" where their harmonies stand out and you can really hear the range of all their voices blending together. If you listen to Fisherman's Friends' CDs they grow on you each time you hear them and you cannot but help singing their songs around the house. Of course, other people have done some of the songs but Fisherman's Friends have such a lovely way of doing the songs in their own inimitable way that you just want to keep playing them over again.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Delighted to have acquired the last 'Suck 'em and Sea' on Amazon.
It's music in it's purest form - the human voice - and nothing else. I've read criticisms of the most recent offering from these guys - over-produced - to much unnecessary instrumentation and ego-driven producer interference that destroys the purity on the voices and harmonies. I agree. I've seen it happen too many times to great voices who enter a studio, sing their songs, leave, and then the producer adds electric guitars, percussion, even a brass section on one occasion ! It's happened to the Battlefield Band, Ceolbeg, and many others. Privately, great voices like the late great Derek Moffat and Davy Steele hated it, but they were professionals, and the studio made the rules.
In every town and village all over the UK we can find a dozen voices who can do this stuff - music relating to their part of the world, it's industries, it's people, and it's history. Stories. Because that's what 'folk music' is. Stories, with a tune.
The difference is that the good men of Port Isaac have actually done it, and I've added something else to my list of 'Things to do Before I Die' (pushing 60, but plenty of time left, I hope): To visit Port Isaac and hear these guys sing in the pub.
Ignore the new stuff. Track this one down instead.
It's music in it's purest form - the human voice - and nothing else. I've read criticisms of the most recent offering from these guys - over-produced - to much unnecessary instrumentation and ego-driven producer interference that destroys the purity on the voices and harmonies. I agree. I've seen it happen too many times to great voices who enter a studio, sing their songs, leave, and then the producer adds electric guitars, percussion, even a brass section on one occasion ! It's happened to the Battlefield Band, Ceolbeg, and many others. Privately, great voices like the late great Derek Moffat and Davy Steele hated it, but they were professionals, and the studio made the rules.
In every town and village all over the UK we can find a dozen voices who can do this stuff - music relating to their part of the world, it's industries, it's people, and it's history. Stories. Because that's what 'folk music' is. Stories, with a tune.
The difference is that the good men of Port Isaac have actually done it, and I've added something else to my list of 'Things to do Before I Die' (pushing 60, but plenty of time left, I hope): To visit Port Isaac and hear these guys sing in the pub.
Ignore the new stuff. Track this one down instead.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
dont really know...
i do not realy know what to say about this cd...packing and delivery fine...perhaps its because i saw the tv programe about them ... Read more
Published 7 months ago by nak
Beware, bawdy songs included.
I bought this, together with two other CDs having heard a brief sample that gave no indication of the bawdy content. However, a refund was given on reurn.
Published 10 months ago by Mr. John F. Keogh
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