Baby Gramps is a friend of mine, and I have admired his work for a long time, but I have never thought of him as a singer of chanteys. Not that he couldn't do them and do them well if he tried -- he's one of the most perceptive observers and analysts of other people's singing and performing styles I know -- but that has never been part of his own shtick.

Oh well. Maybe this will get him the attention beyond the Northwest that he has always deserved.