To continue - sorry, I've been away for a couple of weeks. Spent the first week visiting my brother in Islay. Managed to catch a couple of the regular music and song sessions there - Sunday nights in the Port Charlotte Hotel and Tuesday nights in the Lochside, Bowmore.

At the latter, Paul Hathaway (brewer at Islay Ales) gave an excellent rendition of a song I hadn't come across before - the late Rod Shearman's "Sail Away" - in the DT here . A great song, it's on Rod's album "Here's to Friends" - I'll have to ask the Chantey Cabin if they've got any. That was quick - they do! Also "Off to Sea Again".

Rod Shearman sailed with P&O in the fifties, and "Sail Away" gives a good impression of the seaman's travels and experiences. I've heard a few people singing his songs, never got to hear the man himself.

Ross