There has been a resurgence of interest in maritime songs and shanties since social media videos have spread them out into the world. In a nod to popular taste, this week we begin a two-part feature focusing on maritime songs and shanties. We’ll hear music from The Fisherman’s Friends, Hauler, Jimmy Rankin, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem and Stan Rogers. We’ll haul away together … this week on the Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

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Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Donogh Hennessey / “Hornpipe:Home By the Fire” / Masters of the Irish Guitar / Shanachie
The Fisherman’s Friends / “Keep Hauling” /Music from the Movie Fisherman’s Friends / Island
              
Hauler / “Whalebone” / Hauler / Self-produced
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem / “Haul Away Joe” / In Person at Carnegie Hall / Columbia
Great Big Sea / “Ferryland Sealer” / Turn / Sire

Bett Padgett / “Carrol M. Deering” / Hatteras: if a Lighthouse Could Speak…/ Ceilidhe’s Music
McKasson & McDonald / “Bay of Biscay” / Harbour / Self-produced
Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, A.L. Lloyd & Chorus / “Blood-Red Roses” / Classic Maritime Music
               / Smithsonian Folkways
John Doyle / “Reels:The Gooseberry Bush-The Sailor’s Return” / Masters of the Irish Guitar
               / Shanachie

Jimmy Rankin / “Haul Away the Whale” / Moving East / True North
Lou Killen / “The Flying Cloud” / Blow the Man Down / Topic
Various / “Sitting in the Stern of a Boat” / Lewis & Clark Original Soundtrack / RCA
Stan Rogers / “Northwest Passage” / Northwest Passage / Fogarty’s Cove
Morrigan / “Bully in the Alley” / Classic Maritime Music / Smithsonian Folkways
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways