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John Roberts & Tony Barrand : Across The Western Ocean
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Songs of the North Atlantic sailing packets
Genre: Folk: British Folk
Release Date: 2000
Across The Western Ocean Record Label: Swallowtail Records
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Introduction/ New York Girls 4:37 $0.99
Captain Samuels on his sailors 0:36 $0.99
Blow The Man Down 3:32 $0.99
Impressions of a first voyage/ The Crayfish 2:17 $0.99
The Black Cook 4:06 $0.99
The Lime Juice Ship 2:27 $0.99
The wreck of the Staffordshire 1:16 $0.99
The Flying Dutchman 2:46 $0.99
Get Up Jack, John Sit Down 3:34 $0.99
The Flying Cloud 4:13 $0.99
Immigration Conditions 1:19 $0.99
Heave Away My Johnnies 3:52 $0.99
Perils of transatlantic dalliance 0:47 $0.99
Maggie May 2:48 $0.99
Peter Street 4:21 $0.99
The Seamen's Hymn 1:28 $0.99
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Album Notes

Day and night, through fair weather and foul, American sailing packets ploughed the North Atlantic. Between 1818 and 1870, they ferried the elite of society to and from Europe, sped vital manufactured goods, and transported millions of emigrants to the New World. Their crews, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic,were hard men driven as mercilessly as the ships, yet their work-time shanties and leisure-time forebiters reflect both a cheerful resilience and an unexpected depth of emotion. These songs are theirs, shaped and sung on their way across the Western Ocean.

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