Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys

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Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys

Compilation album by Various Artists
Released	August 22, 2006 (US) August 21, 2006 (UK)
Recorded	2004 - 2006
Genre	Folk Traditional Sea shanty
Length	Disc 1: 77:27 Disc 2: 79:53 Total length: 157:20
Label	ANTI-
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Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys is a compilation album of sea shanties performed by a wide array of artists, ranging from Sting to Bryan Ferry, representing a variety of genres. The artists cover a large number of diverse songs of the sea, at times adding elements traditionally attributed to other types of music. The majority of the pop performers had not been known to be familiar with the sea shanty as a separate genre, though Sting, who contributed two tracks to the project, had had prior knowledge of and contact with them. Several well-known names from the folk world, where these songs have long been a staple also make appearances, including Richard Thompson, Martin Carthy and James Cooke.

1 Track listing
- 1.1 Disc One
- 1.2 Disc Two
2 Producers
3 Trivia
4 References
5 External links

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"Cape Cod Girls" – Baby Gramps – 7:14
"Mingulay Boat Song" – Richard Thompson – 4:13
"My Son John" – John C. Reilly – 1:38
"Fire Down Below" – Nick Cave – 2:50
"Turkish Revelry" – Loudon Wainwright III – 4:21
"Bully in the Alley" – The Old Prunes – 2:30
"The Cruel Ship's Captain" – Bryan Ferry – 3:35
"Dead Horse" – Robin Holcomb – 2:54
"Spanish Ladies" – Bill Frisell – 2:22
"Coast of High Barbary" – Joseph Arthur – 4:02
"Haul Away Joe" – Mark Anthony Thompson – 4:10
"Dan Dan" – David Thomas – 0:50
"Blood Red Roses" – Sting – 2:44
"Sally Brown" – Teddy Thompson – 2:54
"Lowlands Away" – Rufus Wainwright & Kate McGarrigle – 3:25
"Baltimore Whores" – Gavin Friday – 4:40
"Rolling Sea" – Eliza Carthy – 4:49
"The Mermaid" – Martin Carthy & The UK Group – 2:23
"Haul on the Bowline" – Bob Neuwirth – 1:29
"A Dying Sailor to His Shipmates" – Bono – 4:44
"Bonnie Portmore" – Lucinda Williams – 3:36
"Shenandoah" – Richard Greene & Jack Shit – 2:58
"The Cry of Man" – Mary Margaret O'Hara – 3:06

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"Boney" – Jack Shit – 1:55
"Good Ship Venus" – Loudon Wainwright III – 3:15
"Long Time Ago" – White Magic – 2:35
"Pinery Boy" – Nick Cave – 3:15
"Lowlands Low" – Bryan Ferry & Antony – 2:35
"One Spring Morning" – Akron/Family – 5:25
"Hog Eye Man" – Martin Carthy & Family – 2:44
"The Fiddler" – Ricky Jay & Richard Greene – 1:34
"Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold" – Andrea Corr – 3:58
"Fathom the Bowl" – John C. Reilly – 3:44
"Drunken Sailor" – David Thomas – 3:44
"Farewell Nancy" – Ed Harcourt – 6:06
"Hanging Johnny" – Stan Ridgway – 3:28
"Old Man of the Sea" – Baby Gramps – 5:18
"Greenland Whale Fisheries" – Van Dyke Parks – 4:41
"Shallow Brown" – Sting – 2:30
"The Grey Funnel Line" – Jolie Holland – 4:53
"A Drop of Nelson's Blood" – Jarvis Cocker – 7:10
"Leave Her Johnny" – Lou Reed – 5:30
"Little Boy Billy" – Ralph Steadman – 5:33

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[edit] Trivia

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60 songs were recorded for Rogue's Gallery and only 43 appear on the album.
- Willner: "Hopefully, there will be a volume two. I have half of it recorded already."^[1]
Hal Willner has previously worked with Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright, Antony and Kate McGarrigle who all contributed to Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man, a soundtrack to Lian Lunson's film chronicling Willner's Cohen tribute concert.
When tracks from the CD are uploaded into iTunes, the artist listing for Bono's "A Dying Sailor to His Shipmates" reads "That Wanker Bono".