A great CD on Saydisc called "Sea Songs & Shanties" is from the Brittish tradition with the likes of Bob Roberts, Harry Cox, Tom Brown, Clifford Jenkins, the Fisherman's Group (a group of fisherman out of Cornwall) & some others. If you don't recognize some of the names it may be their mostly dead & gone, but Peter Kennedy got them on tape between the 50' & 60's. These were the people that supplied the songs to those that became famous singing sea songs. A tape by the Menhaden Chantymen by Globle Village called "Won't You Help Me To Raise 'Em" is a great collection of net hauling songs from the Afro American fishing industry off the mid Alantic coast, done by the same retired fisherman, a recent CD put out by Mystic Seaport called "American Sea Chanteys" as part of the French sea music collection of Le Chasse-Maree Antholgy Of Sea Songs, volume 11, is probably one of the best sea music recordings out in ages, it's focus is towards shanties influenced by Afro Americans, as would be anything by the great Georgia Sea Island Singers, a few tapes by a combination of Holdstock, MacLeod & Murphy are also great with their focus on San Francisco related shanties & one of sea music related to the gold rush. Some of the sampler type that are very good would be on Collector Records "Steady As She Goes" with Jeff & Gerret Warner, Lou Killen & Fud Benson, another is "Farewell Nancy" on Topic with Lou Killen, Cyril Tawney, Ian Cambell, Redd Sullivan, Bob Davenport & Dave Swarbrick, another from Topic called "Sea Shanties" with Roy Harris, A.L.Lloyd, Bernard Wrigley & Martyn Wyndham-Read. Another great whaling recording is called "Leviathan" by Lloyd on Topic. Dan Milner has a very nice collection of sea music on his "Irish Ballads & Songs Of The Sea" maybe self produced on Bilge Rat Productions. Some of the more contemporary nice stuff would be anything by Cyril Tawney, Tom Lewis, Jim Paine, Stan Rogers & Cindy Kallet (I leave out Gordon Bok here, too depressing, my son caught him at a festival & remarked the workshop should've been called "come down to the sea & die, sorry you Bok fans). The preceeding is only my opinion & I'll take the heat for the last comment. Barry