The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119776   Message #2604339
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
03-Apr-09 - 11:45 PM
Thread Name: 'Rare' Caribbean shanties of Hugill, etc
Subject: RE: 'Rare' Caribbean shanties of Hugill, etc
"Stormalong, Lads, Stormy"

Print: Hugill; Sharp ("Wo Stormalong")
Performers: ???

Notes:
Though there are indeed many variants on the "Stormalong" theme, this one can easily be consider distinct. It's one of the few in Sharp's EFC text that he did not collect from John Short; he got it from Robert Ellison of London. Hugill got it from Harding. Sharp's makes more "sense" to me, melodically. Hugill's, assuming it is accurate, has an interesting 2-tonal-center quality to it.

I've not yet heard any renditions of this, so my own, meant to illustrate Hugill's text, is based only on it and my imagination. recording

Please do offer the names of any other recordings/performers of this one, and their source for learning if possible.