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I feel that I should make it known (pursuant to my tweets about this, for those of you following me on twitter), that I have created an hour-long, fifteen-song playlist on the theme of shipwrecks and (unpleasant) seafaring events.
Peril on the Sea: The Playlist
1) The Bills, Bamfield's John Vanden
2) Great Big Sea, The Banks of Newfoundland (version 1)
3) Woods Tea Company, The Banks of Newfoundland (version 2)
4) Stan Rogers, Barrett's Privateers
5) Stan Rogers, Bluenose (version 1)
6) Great Big Sea, England
7) Stan Rogers, The Flowers of Bermuda
8) Great Big Sea, French Perfume
9) The Irish Rovers, The Irish Rover
10) Alan Simon/Fairport Convention, Marie La Cordelière
11) Stan Rogers, The Mary Ellen Carter (starts at 1:45)
12) Woods Tea Company, The Schooner I'm Alone
13) Fairport Convention, Sir Patrick Spens
14) Stan Rogers, The Wreck of the Athens Queen
15) Gordon Lightfoot, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Bonus (I'm going to have to rip a copy of this from youtube because I can't find it anywhere):
26) The Irish Rovers, Bluenose (version 2, with more shipwreck)
Not all these are 100% about shipwrecks, but there are a lot of shipwrecks. I'm open to suggestions of more songs about shipwrecks to improve this list - for instance, these versions of the Banks of Newfoundland are insufficiently shipwrecky! I know there's a version out there that involved either horrible becalming or a shipwreck, because the text was in one of my English books in high school (featuring the line "the billowy waves roll over their graves on the banks of Newfoundland"), but I can't find it.
Anyway, to be honest this is a pretty accurate snapshot of my (non-fiddle) taste in music. I could put together similar playlists of battles (oh man, I should make a battle playlist for sure) and other historical events. So umm, folk/1970s folk-rock/bluegrass forever?
Edited to add: Googling "the billowy waves roll over their graves" has led me to that version of the song: The Banks of Newfoundland. Apparently this version was collected by the folklorist Edith Fowke, which would explain why it was in my English book (she was fairly famous, and maybe most so for collecting the song Farewell to Nova Scotia).
This entry was originally posted at http://monksandbones.dreamwidth.org/765842.html. Talk to me here or there, whichever you prefer.
Peril on the Sea: The Playlist
1) The Bills, Bamfield's John Vanden
2) Great Big Sea, The Banks of Newfoundland (version 1)
3) Woods Tea Company, The Banks of Newfoundland (version 2)
4) Stan Rogers, Barrett's Privateers
5) Stan Rogers, Bluenose (version 1)
6) Great Big Sea, England
7) Stan Rogers, The Flowers of Bermuda
8) Great Big Sea, French Perfume
9) The Irish Rovers, The Irish Rover
10) Alan Simon/Fairport Convention, Marie La Cordelière
11) Stan Rogers, The Mary Ellen Carter (starts at 1:45)
12) Woods Tea Company, The Schooner I'm Alone
13) Fairport Convention, Sir Patrick Spens
14) Stan Rogers, The Wreck of the Athens Queen
15) Gordon Lightfoot, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Bonus (I'm going to have to rip a copy of this from youtube because I can't find it anywhere):
26) The Irish Rovers, Bluenose (version 2, with more shipwreck)
Not all these are 100% about shipwrecks, but there are a lot of shipwrecks. I'm open to suggestions of more songs about shipwrecks to improve this list - for instance, these versions of the Banks of Newfoundland are insufficiently shipwrecky! I know there's a version out there that involved either horrible becalming or a shipwreck, because the text was in one of my English books in high school (featuring the line "the billowy waves roll over their graves on the banks of Newfoundland"), but I can't find it.
Anyway, to be honest this is a pretty accurate snapshot of my (non-fiddle) taste in music. I could put together similar playlists of battles (oh man, I should make a battle playlist for sure) and other historical events. So umm, folk/1970s folk-rock/bluegrass forever?
Edited to add: Googling "the billowy waves roll over their graves" has led me to that version of the song: The Banks of Newfoundland. Apparently this version was collected by the folklorist Edith Fowke, which would explain why it was in my English book (she was fairly famous, and maybe most so for collecting the song Farewell to Nova Scotia).
This entry was originally posted at http://monksandbones.dreamwidth.org/765842.html. Talk to me here or there, whichever you prefer.