gotta admit - it's growing on me! On first hearing it, I was gobsmacked, some of the tracks are surreal. However, I am listening it to it presently for the third time - and I'm getting to like it. Yes, it's eclectic, I don't like every track, but even the one's that disturbed me on the first hearing (such as Baby Gramp's Cape Cod Girls), I am getting used to.
I dunno, but anyone or anything that brings traditional material into the mainstream can only be a good thing as far as I am concerned. Having sung sea songs and shanties for the last ten years or so and having had to explain the genre to all and sundry, perhaps the intervention of this recording will boost the cause. Or ... perhaps shanties will be the new rock n roll - here's hoping!