Steve Travis – Shanties and Other Songs of the Sea CD

Steve Travis has roped in some local musos to form a shanty crew and record an album of shanties and other songs of the sea. He is fortunate enough to live on Mersea, the most eastern inhabited island in the British Isles, and is surrounded there by great music and fresh salty air. A bracing, refreshing and relaxing environment in which to record this album, quite different to when these songs were first heard.  Then Mersea island was inhabited by a blend of sailors and smugglers, who lived their tragedies and joys through many of these songs.

1. What shall we do with the drunken sailor
2. Haul away Joe
3. Lowland low
4. No hopers, jokers & rogues
5. The smuggler
6. Blow the man down
7. A-roving
8. Raggle taggle gypsies
9. Blackwater smuggler
10. South Australia
11. Blood red roses
12. Yo ho ho & a bottle of rum
13. Johnny come down to Hilo
14. The old nickelodeon sound
15. All for me grog
16. Sloop John B
17. My heart will go on