Chanteyranger & Radriano newest CD

Subject: Chanteyranger & Radriano newest CD
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 04:41 PM

Richard Adrianowicz and I have recently released our 3rd CD of chanteys and forebitters, WITH SHIPMATES ALL AROUND. We continue to mine the rich heritage of sea music, and strive to present them with a minimum of arranging. Most tracks are sung a cappella, with fiddle, tinwhistle, and guitar accompaniment on a few songs. Several tracks include a chorus of chantey singers: Walt Askew, Shay Black, David LoVine, Jim Nelson, Malcolm Rigby, and Benjamin Wachs. The chorus on Mr. Stormalong is made up of some of our singing mates in In Harmony's Way: Steve Baughman, Michael Black, Shay Black, Peter Kasin, Allan Macleod, Dick Holdstock, Doug Olsen, Riggy Rackin, Ed Silberman, and Dave Swan.

Please PM me for ordering address. $16.50 through U.S. mail, ($15 plus $1.50 postage and handling), or $15 in person. Online orders can be made through CDBaby.com.

Here are the track listings:

1. Heave and Go, My Nancy O!
Lead: Peter. Danish capstan chantey, first appeared in Laura Alexandrine Smith, Music Of The Waters, 1871, and later in Stan Hugill, Shanties From The Seven Seas. A melody was never collected, so Peter composed one, using Hugill's version).

2. 'Way Me Susiana!
Lead: Richard. Collected by Stan Hugill from his shipmate Haring. This hauling song was used for pumping and cargo work.

3. The Lang 'Awa Ship.
Lead vocal and fiddle, Peter. Harmony, guitar and tinwhistle, Richard.Written by Isabella Boyd (1808-12888), found in Nigel Gatherer, Songs and Ballads of Dundee.

4. Billy Boy.
Lead vocals, Peter and Richard. Originally a shore song, this was sometimes lead by two shantymen at the capstan.

5. John Brown's Body.
Lead vocal, Peter. Famous Civil War marching song adapted as a capstan shanty. From Hugill, Shanties From The Seven Seas.

6. The Kinsale Herring.
Lead vocal, guitar, and tinwhiste, Richard. Fiddle, Peter. An Irish sea song from the South Coast.

7. Mister Stormalong.
Lead vocal, Richard, w/ chorus. A pumping shanty later also used at the capstan.

8. John, John Crow.
Lead vocal, Peter. A Barbadian cargo unloading chantey from Frederick Pease Harlow, Chanteying Aboard American Ships.

9. Good Morning, Ladies All.
Lead vocal, Richard. Pumping and cotton screwing chantey from Mobile Bay.

10. Goodnight, Ladies.
Lead vocal, Peter. A capstan shanty, and another example of a popular shore song adapted for shipboard use. Found in Hugill, Shanties From The Seven Seas.

11. Ho, The Last One.
Lead vocal, Richard. A boat launching song from the Bahamas, collected by Alan Lomax from a group of Andros Island men.

12. The Jamestown Homeward Bound.
Lead vocal, Peter. A patriotic forebitter from the 1840's, found in Joanna Colcord, Roll and Go: Songs of American Sailormen.

13. I Sailed The Sea.
Lead vocal, Richard. A modern sea song composed by Geoff Higginbottom, that we learned from Malcolm Rigby.

14. Oh, Row, Heave and Go.
Lead vocal, Richard, w/ chorus.
A hauling shanty collected by Cecil Sharp from a Mr. Allison of Perth. Only one verse was given for this, and Richard got the other verses from a related shanty.

15. Walk Along, My Rosie.
Lead vocal, Peter. A hauling shanty found in Shanties From The Seven Seas.

16. Red Iron Ore.
Lead vocal, Richard. A sea ballad from the Great Lakes in America.

17. Lindy Lowe.
Lead vocal, Peter. Barbadian chantey from Harlow, Chanteying Aboard American Ships.

18. The Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow.
Lead vocal and guitar, Richard. Fiddle, Peter. A nautical version found in The Ancient Music of Ireland.

19. Oh, Annie, Oh!
Lead vocal, Peter. A riverboat cargo handling chantey, from Mary Wheeler, Steamboatin' Days: Folk Songs of the River Packet Era (1944).

20. Come, Loose Every Sail To The Breeze.
Lead vocal, Richard. Chorus: Peter and Walt Askew. A sentimental and very old song.

21. Hurrah, Sing Fare Ye Well.
Lead vocal, Richard, w/ chorus. A hauling song popular in London. The pull occurs in the refrain on the second syllable of "hurrah."

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Derek Bianchi at Muscletone Studios, Berkeley, CA.

-Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Chanteyranger & Radriano newest CD
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 04:55 PM

An additional note, on track 12, The Jamestown Homeward Bound, I use the melody by John Rockwell of Ye Mariners All.

Subject: RE: Chanteyranger & Radriano newest CD
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 05:05 PM

This CD is highly recommended by JudyB and myself. It kept us awake and alert all the way back from Mystic to Maine.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Chanteyranger & Radriano newest CD
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 09:53 PM

I had a bit of trouble finding it - title search gives no results, search on Richard Adrianowicz didn't show it, Viewing all albums in Richard's store doesn't show it, but Viewing all albums in Peter & Richard's store gives the new CD.

weird.

so I also bought a few other CDs, thus breaking my long CD buying drought!

sandra (eagerly awaiting a package from CDBaby)

Subject: RE: Chanteyranger & Radriano newest CD
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 02:01 PM

There was a technical problem at CD Baby that is now fixed so a search on Richard Adrianowicz will show the new album.

Peter and I are still working on detailed liner notes for the album - the file will be distributed electronically until we get a new website.

Thanks, Charlie & Judy, for the kind words. Great seeing you both at Mystic!

radriano

Subject: RE: Chanteyranger & Radriano newest CD
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 04:53 PM

7. Mister Stormalong is one of my favorite tracks from this recording.

Nicely recorded as well and the chorus crew does a great job, no ragged ends sticking out like so much "Irish linen."

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Chanteyranger & Radriano newest CD
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 12:26 AM

Thank you, Charley, that's very kind, and thanks for your order, Sandra. We recommend people buy two, in case they want to listen to it twice.

Chanteyranger (Peter)

Subject: RE: Chanteyranger & Radriano newest CD
From: sharyn
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 04:27 PM

Congratulations, Peter and Richard.

Subject: RE: Chanteyranger & Radriano newest CD
From: RiGGy
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 04:41 PM

I LIKE it !!

Subject: RE: Chanteyranger & Radriano newest CD
From: Charley Noble
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 08:28 PM

Tracks 18 and 19 continue to haunt me as this CD continues to play in my van. It's a good test of any CD to see how long one will play it on the road, what tracks one only listened to once and then skips over, and which ones one wants to hears again, and again.

Track 18 is a lovely quiet song with guitar led by Richard with Peter on fiddle called "The Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow." The tune reminds me of "Over the Water to Charlie" but what the song does is capture a romantic moment.

Track 19 is a riverboat shanty led by Peter with an intricate chorus that most folks will find accessible, and hard to get out of their head once they begin to listen. I'm eager to see further notes on this one.

I also like Richard's rendition of the Great Lakes ballad "Red Iron Ore" which not many people sing. It's a great journal of one crew's experience, no disaster but graphic descriptions of what went on day to day. I do miss the "Down Derry Down" chorus between verses but fully understand why that chorus might be dropped -- so that the track didn't end up being more than 6 minutes long.

There's more tracks to review but these are the ones I've digested so far.

Charley Noble