Clock Tower Records

John Townley - A Chesapeake Sailors Companion

Details

Format: CD
Catalog: 1032
Rel. Date: 06/19/2001
UPC: 722485103228

A Chesapeake Sailors Companion
Artist: John Townley
Format: CD
New: Available $17.98
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Formats and Editions

DISC: 1

1. We Be Three Poor Mariners
2. Tobacco Is Like Love
3. To Portsmouth
4. While Up the Shrouds
5. Saturday Night at Sea
6. Tom Bowling
7. Jamestown Homeward Bound, The
8. Norfolk Girls
9. Running Down to Cuba
10. Old Virginia Lowlands, The
11. Bound for Baltimore
12. Titanic, The
13. Roseanna
14. See You When the Sun Goes Down
15. Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay
16. Mail Day

More Info:

Folk singer Towney presents a variety of tunes including favorites composed during the reigns of Elizabeth & James I, when tobacco was king, to Tin Pan Alley numbers of the early 20th Century, when hydraulics began to replace muscle, and more. Like this nation, the songs began an ocean away from England to Africa, and are transformed by commerce, technology & social change into something uniquely American. Townley is joined by the Press Gang, a group of friends & fellow musicians, including Anne Waple, Blanton Bradley & champion Scottish fiddler John Turner.
        
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