Revels Book of Chanteys and Sea Songs
New Songbook
This is John Langstaff's final Revels opus in which he gathered a very personal collection of some of his favorite songs of the sea [read more]
SB-2006 (Songbook) $21.95 [add to order]
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Homeward Bound
Not all nautical songs are sea chanteys. There are muscular chanteys here (songs sailors used to work in rhythm hauling lines, hoisting sails, lifting anchor, or simply swabbing the decks), but also the lonely ballads sailors shared off-duty, and the everyday songs sung on shore by women and families creating a vivid, transporting portrait of maritime culture. [read more]
CD-2002 (CD only) $12.95 [add to order]
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Blow, Ye Winds in the Morning
Look past the jolly old tars of myth to meet the real people who created our maritime music. Assembled by Revels founder John Langstaff to create a complete portrait of those lives, [read more]
CD-1084 (CD Only) $12.95 [add to order]
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Safe in the Harbour
This new recording by David Coffin offers a mix of traditional and contemporary maritime songs. It includes two new works by Coffin, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the construction of two Boston built clipper ships. Also heard on this CD are Texas-based 'cellist, Max Dyer; Kent Allyn, piano and guitar; David Surette, mandolin; and a special appearance by the Cedar House Boys.
 "The Marco Polo"
"Final Trawl"
"Away Rio"
CD-3405 (CD only) $14.95 [add to order]
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Across the Western Ocean
For over 30 years John Roberts and Tony Barrand have been the major ambassadors of English traditional music in North America. With rare wit and humor, they sing the ballads and songs of the sea, or rural pursuits of social and sociable situations, of industrial toil and strife and much more. Their trademark unaccompanied two-part vocals are augmented by concertinas, banjo and percussion.
This recording features the songs sung on board the packet ships which can be roughly divided into the categories of chantey and forebitter. The chantey was a work song used exclusively to provide the rhythm for the crew working on the deck or up in the rigging. The forebitters were sung in a more relaxed atmosphere, in off-duty hours in the crew's cramped quarters beneath the forecastle head. These were often popular ballads from the shore, and many would have been accompanied with fiddle, banjo or other portable instrument.
CD-3010 (CD only) $14.95 [add to order]
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Victory
Two Children, Two Struggles, One Battle... One child is Sam Robbins, a powder monkey aboard HMS Victory, the ship in which Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson will die a hero's death at the Battle of [read more]
HC-2106 (Hardcover) $16.95 [add to order]
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Nantucket Sleighride
David Coffin and his band, The Nantucket Sleighride, perform spirited arrangements of old and new songs about life at sea, and some haunting ballads of its perils. Includes "Rolling Down to Old Maui," "We Have Fed Our Sea," "Coasts of High Barbary," and "Seamans' Hymn." David has been an important part of Spring and Christmas Revels productions since 1980, as singer, instrumentalist and audience leader.
"The Bonny Ship the Diamond"
"Soon May the Wellermen Come"
"Coasts of High Barbary"
CD -3404 (CD only) $14.95 [add to order]
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Sea Fever:
Songs of Shps and the Sea
...plenty of concertina, a sprinkling of clawhammer banjo, fiddle, viola, whilte, Celtic harp and a big dose of great old songs... [read more]
CD-3010 (CD only) $14.95 [add to order]
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