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Sea Shanties (Spiers And Boden Album)
''Sea Shanties'' is an album by Ian Giles, Spiers and Boden and Graham Metcalfe. Most of the tracks are sung as an unaccompanied quartet of male voices. The sound is so thick that there is probably only one microphone. There are two instrumental tracks. This appears to be the first ever recording of the tune "Ashley's Flag", printed about 1800. The album was available at UK tourist centres rather than high street music stores. Recorded and released in 2002. Track listing # ''Haul away the bowline'' (Trad) # ''Clear away the track'' (Trad) # ''Portsmouth/ Bonny Kate'' (instr) (Trad/Trad) # ''Bully in the alley'' (Trad) # ''All for me grog'' (Trad) # ''Ten Thousand Miles Away'' (Trad) # ''The 24th of February'' (Trad) # ''The weary whaling ground'' (Trad) # ''Ashley's hornpipe/ Ashley's flag'' (instr) (Trad/Trad) # ''Nancy of Yarmouth'' (Trad) # ''Paddy Doyle's boots'' (Trad) # ''The bonny ship the Diamond'' (Trad) # ''The candlelight fisherman'' (Trad) # ''The gall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spiers And Boden
Spiers and Boden are an English folk duo. John Spiers plays melodeon and concertina, while Jon Boden sings and plays fiddle and guitar while stamping the rhythm on a stomp box. Spiers and Boden were founding members of the folk band Bellowhead. Biography They began playing together in 1999 and their first album as a duo was ''Through & Through'' (2001). In 2002 they were both session musicians on Eliza Carthy's album ''Anglicana'', and toured with her as part of her band The Ratcatchers. However it was their second album, ''Bellow'', in 2003 that drew significant attention. The tunes and songs were mostly traditional, grounded in the Morris tradition. In the same year they won the "Horizon Award" in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, followed by the "Best Duo" category in 2004. Together they play fiddle, guitar, assorted squeezebox instruments, a stomp box and they both sing – a combination which sounds like a two-man-one-man-band An album called simply '' Tunes'' came out in su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |