Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: WyoWoman
Date: 06 Oct 00 - 10:38 AM

I'll check out the film. So often so many behaviors can be laid at the feet of physical ailments. This is why I became a proponent many years ago of giving just about everyone the benefit of the doubt -- the benefit of many doubts and as much generosity as can be mustered. You just never know what's driving the train ...

Also realizing that the body is not the person, but just one element of the person, helps. We get that confused an awfully lot in our society and think the Spirit is the skin bag and its accoutrements.

Fortunato, what a wonderful experience that must have been. Wish we had the Time Machine tuned up and running so I could hop aboard and go back to drop in for a visit ... Hmmm a thread topic is starting to bubble...

ww

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: Art Thieme
Date: 06 Oct 00 - 09:55 AM

Wyo,

You said "body, spirit, mind and sometimes heart".
Yes, ALL of those can, and sometimes/often are, symptoms of MS that are directly traceable to the demyelinating actions of the disease within the brain and central nervous system. Check out the film Hilary and Jackie for what I thought was a subtle depiction of what the disease can do even long before one knows diagnostically that they might have, and then actually do have, this malady. It might make the actions of some of our own relatiives and friends more understandable.

Art

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: Fortunato
Date: 06 Oct 00 - 08:51 AM

Just to keep the record straight, Bob Hitchcock and I have had a roots rock band, the Vibrocats, for a number of years now, playing in the DC area. Previously he was with The New St. George.

The Boarding Party's depth of research was equaled by their strong voices and well crafted harmonys and arrangements. They simply had the power to lift up an audience. When Tom McHenry sang Slow Shiloh if you didn't feel the deep sadness, well you weren't alive.

They were nights at Grant's Tomb (an open mike Charley Bryant and I ran in DC) in the early days where tears of joy filled every eye when they sang.

And then they would be followed by Reuben Musgrave and Mary Chapin Carpenter and Helen Schneyer and many others.
But I wax nostalgic.
Chance

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: WyoWoman
Date: 05 Oct 00 - 10:45 PM

No need to delete, Art. That's what a community is about, right? One of the facts of our lives is that we get infirmities of body and spirit and sometimes mind and, heaven forbid, heart. So, we deal with it -- as a community, as friends and acquaintances. I know several people who have MS and, you're right -- vastly different symptoms.

I think I might have to order this CD now. It sounds like a must -- even for such a dry-lander as myself.

ww

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: Art Thieme
Date: 05 Oct 00 - 10:29 PM

I talked to Jonathan a while back. His situation is not at all pleasant but he sounded "up". For me, talking with him meant giving my sincere best wishes to a fine musician and singer and a staggering intellect who was, more often than not, far over my head. Talking to Mr. Eberhart also meant securing a few more bits of information about the malady that hits all of us with it in so damn many different ways that it boggles the mind. It leaves me wondering how the TV show, THE WEST WING, is going to treat it now that the president (in that program) has been diagnosed with the onsetting-remitting form of MS? How much info will the program actually dispense? Will that info help or hinder sufferers of the disease because it accurately depicts them and their problems --- or will it give false impressions of what it means to have the disease since everyone who has it experiences it and the MANY symptoms so individually ?

I do fear that more of me, personally, is in this post than I intended at first. Please pardon the liberties I've taken. I do doubt I'll delete it as I probably ought.
Get this CD by the Boarding Party, folks. It is a good one. And so is their second recording--probably available from Sandy as a custom cassette.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: Liam's Brother
Date: 05 Oct 00 - 10:10 PM

Some of you know that my wife, Bonnie, is extremely fond of maritime songs and is a member of a very fine group, The Johnson Girls, that concentrates on that kind of music. She considers The Boarding Party to be the benchmark for such groups and this recording in particular to be "classic" on account of its variety, musicality and research. I enjoy it and admire it too.

All the best,
Dan Milner

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: Ferrara
Date: 04 Oct 00 - 10:07 PM

Sandy's too modest to say it here, but he told me when I asked about this CD, that the sound quality is fantastic.

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 11:21 PM

Anglican! Yes...I MEANT Anglican!..Mea Culpa, mea culpa...(Tom McHenry and I shared a love of weird beers from all over the world....used to trade them at sings..and you oughta hear him and his wife, Gail do "Anchored in Love")...

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 10:44 PM

Tom has been ordained and is a full-fledged Anglican priest (I think that's what they're called). K.C. is in New Orleans. Hitchcock, last I heard, was putting together a recording studio in the Washington, DC, area. Dave Diamond, who was with the Boarding Party at the time of this, their first recording, has been a regular at NEFFA, and I can never remember if he's living now in the Boston area or has gone back to DC. I just checked, and he's not on my mailing list. (If any of you have his address, please send it to me!)

The really tragic news is that Jonathan Eberhart, the powerful singer/scholar and focal point of the group, has, as Bill D has told us, advanced MS and is essentially bed-ridden. Such a superb performer he was, too! Strong, edgy voice, so appropriate for the material he chose to present; able to offer music from the African-American tradition, the West Indies, and even examples of the more consciously literary material drawn from broadsides. Jonathan may be the only genuine genius I've ever known (although I'd have to reserve another place in that list for Sam Hinton). It was Jonathan who created the tune for the earliest example of shantying ever noted down, and he brought the Japanese net-hauling song to the group after performing in Japan on a State Department tour with Andy Wallace and, I think, Mike Rivers. I was in a Sushi restaurant with him once, and watched him learning a Japanese love song (one that he'd had a fragment of for a long time) from the Japanese waitress. In exchange, he gave her a song of his own creation, "Life's Trolley Ride," which just happens to be the title song of his solo record on Folk-Legacy. There you go!

Sandy Sandy

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 08:51 PM

Tom McHenry is busy becoming an Episcopal minister, I believe, while Bob Hitchcock has been in a couple of 'modern' folk/rock bands, (He is a FINE guitarist!...used to do classical).....sadly, Jon Eberhart has fairly advanced MS, and doesn't get out anymore.(He used to be the ONLY person who had never missed a Getaway). KC was in New Orleans last I heard.

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 01:13 PM

If Mudcatters order through the Mudcat Shop, or if you remind us in the "comment" line of our regular on-line order form that you are a Mudcatters, a small percentage of the loot goes to Max to help keep Mudcat going. It may not be much, but it's the best we can do. The same goes for Camsco orders, by the way. If you want to go to our web site and order from it (secure credit card, etc.), just mention Mudcat. We're all in this thing together, guys.

Sandy

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: radriano
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 12:07 PM

Hello everybody -

My apologies for posting an incorrect recording date.

When I got confirmation of my order from Folk Legacy, Sandy Paton mentioned something about some of the proceeds going to Mudcat when you order online. Sandy, if you're out there, can we get some clarification on this?

The catalog number for the CD is CD-97 and here's what's on the recording:

Bristol Channel Jamboree
Haul Awa'
Otho's Song
The Alabama
The Cruiser Baltimore
The Hogeye Man
Solid Fas'
The Seaman's Hymn & Eternal Father
Come Down, You Roses
Dead Horse
Johnson Girls
Truxton's Victory
The Sailor's Alphabet
The Shanghaied Dredger
Shallow Brown
The Farewell Shanty


Regards,
Radriano

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 09:09 AM

Two of them have made appearances on Mudcat - KC King and David Diamond. I have both the tapes, and I love 'em. I think I remember KC saying he was in New Orleans? I believe Dave moved back to the Washington DC area. I've seen him at most of the festivals I've been to this year. Maybe someone can give him an e-mail nudge and let him know we're talking behind his back...

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 02:16 AM

They even sing a Japanese net hauling chantey. These guys know their stuff!

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 01:49 AM

I second all of that. The Boarding Party were great. What are they doing now?

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Oct 00 - 12:20 AM

Wow, those are quite the endorsements, I will call tomorrow and order this. (Today was payday!Yeah!)

Thanks for letting us know, Radriano.

kat

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Oct 00 - 10:40 PM

thing is...they..(and particularly Jon Eberhart) loved the research and the 'unusual' tune/song...they really dug into attics and old trunks for some different stuff...and then did good work on 'em

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 02 Oct 00 - 10:28 PM

With no ulterior motives whatsoever, I will state and declare that the Boarding Party recordings (both of them) are among the top ten recordings of Sea Music I've ever heard. And I've heard most of them.

Buy it!

Subject: RE: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Oct 00 - 08:44 PM

well...not 'quite' the '60s..*grin*...they were formed about 1981 or so...but they ARE good..(local fellows to me when they were recording)

Subject: Boarding Party CD from Folk Legacy
From: radriano
Date: 02 Oct 00 - 07:06 PM

For all of you shanty and sea song enthusiasts, Folk Legacy Records has just released a CD of The Boarding Party's 'Tis Our Sailing Time.

The Boarding Party is a most excellent shanty group that recorded in the 60's. If I am not mistaken, 'Tis Our Sailing Time is a re-issue in CD format of their first recording. In addition to great singing, these guys really researched their songs. Included with the CD is a 28-page booklet!

I have a copy of another recording they made called A Fair Wind and A Following Sea that is really superb.

Check out the Folk Legacy website at:
folklegacy.com


Radriano