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Thread #171822 Message #4213217
Posted By: cnd
09-Dec-24 - 10:02 AM
Thread Name: ADD: Survivor Leave - songs by Ken Stephens
Subject: RE: Origins: Survivor Leave (Ken Stephens)
Well I tried my hand at a biography, but I was able to find scarce little information about him besides his songwriting. I've been unable to find a birthday or birthplace, but Stephens has lived in Southampton since the early 1980s. He was in the group Solent Breezes by 1987, and has also performed in the groups Spindrift and Windwytch, and most recently as a duo called Bosun's Call with Geoff Payne, Fiona Murfitt, and Sophie Wright. He's performed as recently as 2020. He seems to have been particularly well regarded in the Polish shanty scene, where he performed periodically in the 1980s-1990s. Below is a list of known songs, with source info if not listed above. I've also found a handful of lyrics, which I'll be posting separately.
4 O'clock On Thursdays Atlantic Conveyor Birkenhead Drill Diamonds Dancing Drowned Horses of Ameland (listen) Fluke Alley Grease the Ways Herzogin Cecilie (listen) Ike Hvaal Machine Madness Magnificent Muskoga One More Pull Boys [1] (listen) Rattle the Winches / Rattling Winches [2] (listen) Rainbow Warrior [3] Seawheels Shellback Ships In Bottles [4] The Stones Of Eling Mill [5] Survivor Leave Tides Away Working On a Foreign Sea [2] (listen) Wreck of the Clarendon