Irish Pirate Ballads and Other Songs of the sea

Locations
Call Number: CD Folk Milner Irish
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch

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Pittsfield Adult A/V 2-week checkout	CD Folk Milner Irish	2-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult A/V 2-week checkout	CD Folk Milner Irish	2-week checkout	On Shelf

Maritime songs from Ireland and its diaspora.
Compact disc.
Notes and bibliography (36 p.) in container.
Ten thousand miles away (3:36) -- The ballad of Ó Bruadair - Out on the ocean / F.R. Higgin, Arthur Duff (3:53) -- Saucy ward (4:12) -- Captain Coulston (5:36) -- Granuaile (3:47) -- Get up, Jack, John, sit down - Miss Thornton's / words, Edward Harrigan (4:28) -- The Flying Cloud (6:25) -- Larry Maher's big 5-gallon jar / tune, Dan Milner (3:13) -- Bold McCarthy : the City of Baltimore (4:39) -- All for me grog - Parnell's march (3:53) -- Castle gardens : sixty years ago (4:55) -- The lowlands low / words, P.J. McCall (4:12) -- The River Lea / tune, Gina Dunlap (5:34).
Dan Milner, vocals ; with accompanists Mick Moloney, Joanie Madden, John Doyle, Tim Collins, Gabriel Donohue, Susan McKeown, Robbie O'Connell, Brian Conway, the Johnson Girls, Bob Conroy.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Not very pirate-y submitted by crazypockets on November 11, 2011, 10:07am I am a big fan of anything Irish, and hey! who doesn't love pirates? So when I happened upon this in the catalog, I thought, "Of course that's for me!" But in the end, I have to say this was a little disappointing. It was more like Raffi singing pirate songs in an Irish accent than actual Irish pirates. Don't mistake this for a children's music album though, unless you want your kids singing about "saucy wards," "grog," and more grog. Which, let's face it, is pretty much most Irish songs out there.
It's hard to go wrong with songs about selling all your possessions for grog, and if you're looking for a good basic album of Irish music, this is a good choice. But I think this would've been much better if say, sung by Johnny Depp doing his Jack Sparrow voice with an Irish twist. Hey, they should make an album like that.

Ballads of the Sea submitted by Meginator on August 3, 2017, 11:44am The emphasis on this album title should be on "ballads", as it consists solely of slow-paced Irish folk songs about the sea and sailing; the use of "pirate" may be accurate in describing the songs' origins (I haven't read the booklet yet), but it might be misleading if you're expecting something more stereotypically pirate-y. That sad, the album is well produced and the songs are recorded in a straightforward manner, even if they seem to lack a bit of emotion in the vocals.