[Mary M S]

PIRATE BALLADS, SEA SONGS & CHANTEYS
Music Producer HAL WILLNER, Verbinski (director of Pirates of the Carribbean) and Johnney Depp in collaboration with ANTI RECORDS. “Due out August 22, the [two-CD] collection is filled with contemporary reinterpretations of songs from a genre of music that has all but disappeared.”

The ocean. It’s all about the vast blue that engulfs two thirds of the planet. The human being cast against that abyss creates an interesting bit of perspective. I think the sailors of the time were dancing with death, and these were their tunes. Gore Verbinski

CD 1
1. Cape Cod Girls - Baby Gramps
2. Mingulay Boat Song - Richard Thompson
3. My Son John - John C. Reilly
4. Fire Down Below - Nick Cave
5. Turkish Revelry - Loudon Wainwright III
6. Bully In The Alley - Three Pruned Men
7. The Cruel Ship's Captain - Bryan Ferry
8. Dead Horse - Robin Holcomb
9. Spanish Ladies - Bill Frisell
10. High Barbary - Joseph Arthur
11. Haul Away Joe - Mark Anthony Thompson
12. Dan Dan - David Thomas
13. Blood Red Roses - Sting
14. Sally Brown - Teddy Thompson
15. Lowlands Away - Rufus Wainwright & Kate McGarrigle
16. Baltimore Whores - Gavin Friday
17. Rolling Sea - Eliza Carthy
18. The Mermaid - Martin Carthy & the UK Group
19. Haul On The Bowline - Bob Neuwirth
20. Dying Sailor to His Shipmates - Bono
21. Bonnie Portmore - Lucinda Williams
22. Shenandoah - Richard Greene & Jack Shit
23. The Cry Of Man - Mary Margaret O'Hara

CD 2
1. Boney - Jack Shit
2. Good Ship Venus - Loudon Wainwright III
3. Long Time Ago - White Magic
4. Pinery Boy - Nick Cave
5. Lowlands Low - Bryan Ferry w/Antony
6. One Spring Morning - Akron/Family
7. Hog Eye Man - Martin Carthy & family
8. The Fiddler/A Drop of Nelson's Blood - Ricky Jay & Richard Greene
9. Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold - Andrea Corr
10. Fathom The Bowl - John C. Reilly
11. Drunken Sailor - David Thomas
12. Farewell Nancy - Ed Harcourt
13. Hanging Johnny - Stan Ridgway
14. Old Man of The Sea - Baby Gramps
15. Greenland Whale Fisheries - Van Dyke Parks
16. Shallow Brown - Sting
17. The Grey Funnel Line - Jolie Holland
18. A Drop of Nelson's Blood - Jarvis Cocker
19. Leave Her Johnny - Lou Reed
20. Little Boy Billy - Ralph Steadman

I’ll be picking this up end of August.

[Henry Gale]

I'm familiar with a few of those artists, but I don't know Jack Shit.





Thank you! Thank you very much...I'll be here all week!

[Mary M S]

Henry I fell out of my chair!!!!
Do you THINK it's a typo (with artists..you never know) (Laughing again) Guess I better go look?!!!
...I cut & pasted the track list.


Followup:
...checked spelling which is correct.

You scared me to death Henry, I ran into this CD while surfing something else. Did not really read the track list before posting, and (just now) did not at first find any references when I went googleing for this production. (using the term 'rogue' tends to pull up weird stuff!)

...For long minutes, - thought I'd been scammed, and had picked up a faked announcement in someones blog.
It is in Wikipedia & Billboard (whoo, sighs in relief)

[Cameron Yee]

I believe members of Jack Shit were studio players on Jonatha Brooke's "Steady Pull" album. They were mentioned on the DVD she put out in 2001.

[Henry Gale]

Turns out, Jackshit is an L.A. bar band. They have one album that includes a few country/bluegrass/folk-rock covers.

[Russell G]

Looks like a pretty impressive line up...

13. Blood Red Roses - Sting

err... maybe not.

Still, might be worth grabbing

[Mary M S]

Its a auto buy for me, I'm a sucker for historicaly based ethnic stuff, must be my 'fey' Irish roots that always hark me back to admiring these things.
Plus I'm a sucker for captains...planes ...ships.
I have a (tiny) sailboat upon which - I never listen to music. I prefer rather to sit (play like I'm Darma ) in lotus position while "sheets bellowing in the wind" just blithely communing with nature
(two dollars, - to he who can come up the comeback line for that line; - and the movie taken from! )

I do have a player on board, - might be worth an exception to listen to this one under the moon ...out on the water. very apropro

[Henry Gale]

Mary,
You commune with nature while your sails make the deep roaring sound characteristic of a bull?

[Mary M S]

Buzzzzzz, wrong comeback line...you have not earned 2 dollars.


Sheets bellying in the wind.

(I don’t think I know how to spell it?! That looks better.)