Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys






Label: ANTI-
Catalog Number: 86817
Release Date US: 2006-08-22
Release Date EU: 2006-08-21
Formats: CD

Track Listings
Track List:
01. CD1: Cape Cod Girls - Baby Gramps
02. CD1: Mingulay Boat Song - Richard Thompson
03. CD1: My Son John - John C. Reilly
04. CD1: Fire Down Below - Nick Cave
05. CD1: Turkish Revelry - Loudon Wainwright III
06. CD1: Bully In The Alley - Three Pruned Men
07. CD1: The Cruel Ship’s Captain - Bryan Ferry
08. CD1: Dead Horse - Robin Holcomb
09. CD1: Spanish Ladies - Bill Frisell
10. CD1: Coast of High Barbary - Joseph Arthur
11. CD1: Haul Away Joe - Mark Anthony Thompson
12. CD1: Dan Dan - David Thomas
13. CD1: Blood Red Roses - Sting
14. CD1: Sally Brown - Teddy Thompson
15. CD1: Lowlands Away - Rufus Wainwright & Kate McGarrigle
16. CD1: Baltimore Whores - Gavin Friday
17. CD1: Rolling Sea - Eliza Carthy
18. CD1: The Mermaid - Martin Carthy & the UK Group
19. CD1: Haul On The Bowline - Bob Neuwirth
20. CD1: A Dying Sailor to His Shipmates - Bono
21. CD1: Bonnie Portmore - Lucinda Williams
22. CD1: Shenandoah - Richard Greene & Jack Shit
23. CD1: The Cry Of Man - Mary Margaret O'Hara
24. CD2: Boney - Jack Shit
25. CD2: Good Ship Venus - Loudon Wainwright III
26. CD2: Long Time Ago - White Magic
27. CD2: Pinery Boy - Nick Cave
28. CD2: Lowlands Low - Bryan Ferry w/ Antony
29. CD2: One Spring Morning - Akron/Family
30. CD2: Hog Eye Man - Martin Carthy & family
31. CD2: The Fiddler - Ricky Jay & Richard Greene
32. CD2: Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold - Andrea Corr
33. CD2: Fathom The Bowl - John C. Reilly
34. CD2: Drunken Sailor - David Thomas
35. CD2: Farewell Nancy - Ed Harcourt
36. CD2: Hanging Johnny - Stan Ridgway
37. CD2: Old Man of The Sea - Baby Gramps
38. CD2: Greenland Whale Fisheries - Van Dyke Parks
39. CD2: Shallow Brown - Sting
40. CD2: The Grey Funnel Line - Jolie Holland
41. CD2: A Drop of Nelson's Blood - Jarvis Cocker
42. CD2: Leave Her Johnny - Lou Reed
43. CD2: Little Boy Billy - Ralph Steadman




Credits
The Cry of Man
Mary Margaret O’Hara – vocal; Kate St. John – oboe, accordion, English horn; Rory McFarlane – bass; David Coulter – saw; Terry Edwards – flugelhorn; Joe Berardi – percussion; Pietra Wextun – piano; Stan Ridgway – harmonica
Recorded in Los Angeles at NRG – Engineered by Eric Liljestrand, assisted by Dave Colvin.
Here is a musical setting of a poem by Harry Kemp (1883-1960). Kemp was famous (or infamous) as a bohemian and boxcar poet. He lived much of his life in Greenwich Village. He also lived in shacks, rode freight cars, and as a young man, ran away to sea.
  Lyrics
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