tracks

Ratcliffe Highway
Rio Grande
Haul On The Bowline
Maggie May
Haul Away Joe
Do My Johnny Booker
Roll The Cotton Down
Haul Boys Haul
Leave Her Johnny
Paddy Lay Back
Fire Down Below
A Hundred Years Ago
Santy Anno
Captain Nipper
Hanging Johnny
Banks Of The Sacramento
Won't You Go My Way
Good Bye Fare Thee Well
All Bound To Go
The Black Ball Line

notes

© 1959 Folkway Recordings & Service Corp
℗© 2007 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Front cover lithograph is American Clipper 'The Sovereign of the Seas'.

Packaged in a cardboard gatefold sleeve with liner notes included on the CDr.

Foc'sle (pronounced forecastle) are a type of shanty that takes it's name from the top deck of a sailing ship.

credits

Banjo – Bob Yellin
Chorus – Bob Brill (2) (tracks: 1 to 4, 6 to 11, 13 to 16, 18 to 20), Dave Van Ronk (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 8, 10 to 12, 14 to 20), Paul Clayton (2) (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15, 17, 19), Roger Abrahams (tracks: 1, 3 to 6, 8 to 14, 16 to 18, 20)
Design [Cover] – Robert Clyne
Lead Vocals [Sung By] – Bob Brill (2) (tracks: 5, 12, 17), Dave Van Ronk (tracks: 3, 9, 13), Paul Clayton (2) (tracks: 1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16, 18, 20), Roger Abrahams (tracks: 2, 7, 15, 19)
Liner Notes, Research – Kenneth S. Goldstein

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