Release Date: 31 October 2011
Label: Wild Goose
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5016700114126
Genres: Folk
Description
Shanties collected from John Short in 1914.
This is the second of three CDs which record the repertoire of John Short – a.k.a. Yankee Jack – of Watchet, Somerset in England's West Country, who, in 1914, gave the folk-song collector Cecil Sharp nearly sixty shanties, several in early rare versions. John spent over fifty years working in sailing boats, much of his younger days in deep-water ships, sailing all around the world as a shantyman. He was born in 1839, went to sea with his father when he was nine; went deep sea at eighteen, married and retired from the deep water trade in his mid-thirties and died when he was ninety-two, in 1933.
Sung by: Jim Mageean, Jeff Warner, Keith Kendrick, Jackie Oates, Roger Watson, Sam Lee, Tom Brown, Barbara Brown, Doug Bailey.
Tracklisting
Patakas
The Exmouth Shanty Men
The Old Swan Band
Becky Price and Friends
Pete Cooper & Richard Bolton
Mat Green & Andy Turner
Belshazzar's Feast
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
