Or 'shanty' album, either spelling is fine. Bono, Lou Reed, Nick Cave, Sting, Bryan Ferry, Joseph Arthur and Jarvis Cocker are amongst the artists all contributing to a sea chantey album, devised by Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski whilst they were at work on the latest 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' film. Verbinski told Billboard: "I slowly became fascinated by the idea of a contemporary reinterpretation of the sea chantey. I imagined the artists that I listen to and respect doing their take on this age-old music: the song of the sea."
The full tracklisting of 'Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys' is as follows:
Cape Cod Girls - Baby Gramps
Mingulay Boat Song - Richard Thompson
My Son John - John C. Reilly
Fire Down Below - Nick Cave
Turkish Revelry - Loudon Wainwright III
Bully In The Alley - Three Pruned Men
The Cruel Ship's Captain - Bryan Ferry
Dead Horse - Robin Holcomb
Spanish Ladies - Bill Frisell
High Barbary - Joseph Arthur
Haul Away Joe - Mark Anthony Thompson
Dan Dan - David Thomas
Blood Red Roses - Sting
Sally Brown - Teddy Thompson
Lowlands Away - Rufus Wainwright & Kate McGarrigle
Baltimore Whores - Gavin Friday
Rolling Sea - Eliza Carthy
The Mermaid - Martin Carthy & the UK Group
Haul On The Bowline - Bob Neuwirth
Dying Sailor to His Shipmates - Bono
Bonnie Portmore - Lucinda Williams
Shenandoah - Richard Greene & Jack Shit
The Cry Of Man - Mary Margaret O'Hara
CD2:
Boney - Jack Shit
Good Ship Venus - Loudon Wainwright III
Long Time Ago - White Magic
Pinery Boy - Nick Cave
Lowlands Low - Bryan Ferry with Antony
One Spring Morning - Akron/Family
Hog Eye Man - Martin Carthy & family
The Fiddler/A Drop of Nelson's Blood - Ricky Jay & Richard Greene
Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold - Andrea Corr
Fathom The Bowl - John C. Reilly
Drunken Sailor - David Thomas
Farewell Nancy - Ed Harcourt
Hanging Johnny - Stan Ridgway
Old Man of The Sea - Baby Gramps
Greenland Whale Fisheries - Van Dyke Parks
Shallow Brown - Sting
The Grey Funnel Line - Jolie Holland
A Drop of Nelson's Blood - Jarvis Cocker
Leave Her Johnny - Lou Reed
Little Boy Billy - Ralph Steadman