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Calico Jack/Janie Meneely : The Oyster Wife
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Chesapeake Bay acoustic folk music, capturing the spirit of the people who live and work on the Bay.
Genre: Folk: Sea Shanties
Release Date: 2006
The Oyster Wife Record Label: Calico Jack/Janie Meneely
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Billy Taylor 4:39 $0.99
Shanghaied Dredger 4:21 $0.99
Oyster Wife 4:32 $0.99
Boatbuilder 3:34 $0.99
Old Bill 5:50 $0.99
Katie Allen 4:18 $0.99
Toadfish 3:08 $0.99
Point Lookout 4:44 $0.99
Islands 3:00 $0.99
Salvagers 3:18 $0.99
Waterman's Kiss 3:55 $0.99
Anthem 2:20 $0.99
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Album Notes

Calico Jack is the duo of Janie Meneely and Paul DiBlasi. The Oyster Wife is their first album together. It records a dozen songs about the Chesapeake Bay and its denizens--primarily the watermen who work the Bay waters. With the exception of the song Shanghaied Dredger (discovered, literally, on an old and tattered broadside), the tunes were composed by Janie Meneely as part of her ongoing effort to catalog Bay history and capture, in song, a rapidly vanishing way of life.

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