I figured a small tribute to Steve Jobs might be in order. Mind you, folk songs about computers and such are darn hard to find! This is from the album Between the Breaks… Live! Stan Rogers .
Stan Rogers - Barrett's Privateers In honor of International Talk Like A Pirate Day, I'm posting this classic Nova Scotian Sea Shanty. Written, sung and preformed by the late great, buccaneer himself, Stan Rogers. May your cups run full today, mateys! Arr. http://www.stanrogers.net/
Stan Rogers : The Mary Ellen Carter [ purchase ] Mary, for your birthday, I offer you a song of hope that once saved a life. The Mary Ellen Carter tells of five sailors who were aboard her when she sank. The owners of the ship declare her a loss, and refuse to consider a salvage operation, preferring to pocket the insurance money. But the five survivors vow to bring the ship back to the surface, and back into service. Stan Rogers could have given his tale a [...]
Arrr, har be the next t' last post o' Pirate Week. Stan Rogers ( official wiki AMG ) war a Canadian folk sin'er, and the year were 1976 when he released this shanty about plunderin' American merchant ships, with extensi'e loss o' life and limb, largely from th' shabbiness o' their own ship. Ahoy, sadly, Rogers suffered an ironic death several years later -- he too died in an untrustworthy craft: Air Canada Flight 797 . Thar be an extremely detailed line-by-line notation on the song har , so simply [...]
Go all the way back to 1981 for this song. MP3 File yousendit
This is from 1984's From Fresh Water. MP3 File yousendit
This is from 1978's Turnaround. MP3 File yousendit
The song was written by Scottish singer Archie Fisher. Westmorland is in the north of England, near Scotland. I have never heard the Fisher version. This is the only one I know, and I can't think it gets better than this. MP3 File yousendit
Stan Rogers: Barrett's Privateers [ purchase ] Ontario-based but Maritimer-at-heart master of the sea shanty Stan Rogers has a whole catalog of songs about boats: boats that got wrecked, boats that were beset by pirates, boats that were their captains' folly, and more. Most come across as true mythologies; a good number, in fact, are based enough on true events to have fit our previous theme on History, too. But Barrett's Privateers is the one which all true folkies [...]
This is from Fogerty's Cove, released in 1976. All of the songs were written by Stan, and many on the album are among my favorite's of his. MP3 File
The Christmas season brings thoughts of friends and family but not everyone is able to spend the season with loved ones. Today the Bus will be traveling far from home and down some lonely back roads. Christmas can be a lonely time for those far from friends and family. We all remember our first Christmas away from home as a young adult leaving the family home to begin our own journey. For some, including a few of my very good friends, this Christmas will be spent without a loved one for the first time in many years. [...]
As long as I can remember, the older folks in rural areas have lamented the fact that the young folks all move away from their hometown to find work in places far away. More often than not those destinations where the work is are less than ideal settings. I don't know when this migration of young folks started; my guess would be with the development of the railroads, perhaps even earlier. In the South it probably started with the construction of the large textile mills after the Civil War. Young folks left the familiarity of the homestead for [...]
Many years ago my good friend Jim Bob had a dream of a little farm on his native Sand Mountain in north Alabama. Jim Bob and I worked together on a few jobs in Alabama, Louisiana, Indiana, and Georgia, and after half a dozen years on the road, he announced that he was settling down to live his dream. When asked how he could leave the big money and fast times for life on the farm, Jim Bob's reply was "On the farm I have to work long, hard hours... twice a year." Fiddlin' John Carson [...]
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