Sea Music

Dan Zanes & Festival Five Folk - Sea Music

Sea Music
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Artist: Dan Zanes & Festival Five Folk
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-04-27
Music Label: Festival Five Rec.
Soundtracks:
  1. Strike the Bell
  2. Farewell Nova Scotia
  3. Cape Cod Girls
  4. Shenandoah
  5. Blow Ye Winds in the Morning
  6. All for Me Grog
  7. Leaving of Liverpool
  8. Windy Old Weather
  9. Sloop John B.
  10. Long Time Ago
  11. Mingulay Boat Song
  12. Deep Blue Sea
  13. Mermaid
  14. Rolling Home

Music reviews of Sea Music

Music Review: Divine. There's no other word for it.
Rating: 5 Stars

You ever have one of those fantasies where you could spend an afternoon with a version of yourself that was 20 years older? That older you would not only warn you off certain jobs, certain people, and certain books, but draw your attention to certain things: "You will read many books," he'd say, "listen to many CD's, watch many movies. But only a few of them will really be your favorites. Let me show you them."

Boy, that'd be great. You'd save so much time and money. As it is, of course, there is no future you. So you have to wade through tons of crud in hopes of finding the rare diamond.

Anyhow. I wish I could have clued my younger self in to this CD, "Sea Music," by Dan Zanes. It immediately became one of my favorites. I've listened to it over and over again and never gotten sick of it. If that older me had been able to explain how much enjoyment this CD was to bring me, he would have demanded I acquire it at any cost, even paying hundreds for it if necessary.

Zanes' other CDs -- at least since he started singing for children -- are also great stuff. But this particular one is in a league of its own.

Description of Sea Music

On Sea Music, former Del Fuegos frontman turned kid's music songster Dan Zanes performs a set of old sea shanties in a rough-hewn but charming manner. He takes songs that have been worn smooth from constant use, artfully scuffs them up, and restores them to their former "ragged but right" glory. His performance of "Shenandoah," for example, features some fine Leadbelly-style 12-string guitar picking and an anguished vocal that almost erases the memory of the polite, formal choral arrangements that usually smother the song. And his "Sloop John B" sails along on jaunty banjos and mandolins rather than the slick harmonies of the Beach Boys' version. These shanties were originally created by sailors as work songs, and consequently they have choruses that are perfect for singing along. Zanes is joined on many tracks by an enthusiastic chorus of kids who are obviously having a wonderful time belting out the sometimes salty lyrics. As with all of Zanes's recordings for children, adults are likely to find themselves listening to this wonderful music even when the kids aren't underfoot. --Michael John Simmons

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