Label: ANTI- Catalog Number: 86817 Release Date US: 2006-08-22 Release Date EU: 2006-08-21 Formats: CD |
Track Listings |
Track List: 01. CD1: Cape Cod Girls – Baby Gramps 02. CD1: Mingulay Boat Song – Richard Thompson 03. CD1: My Son John – John C. Reilly 04. CD1: Fire Down Below – Nick Cave 05. CD1: Turkish Revelry – Loudon Wainwright III 06. CD1: Bully In The Alley – Three Pruned Men 07. CD1: The Cruel Ship’s Captain – Bryan Ferry 08. CD1: Dead Horse – Robin Holcomb 09. CD1: Spanish Ladies – Bill Frisell 10. CD1: Coast of High Barbary – Joseph Arthur 11. CD1: Haul Away Joe – Mark Anthony Thompson 12. CD1: Dan Dan – David Thomas 13. CD1: Blood Red Roses – Sting 14. CD1: Sally Brown – Teddy Thompson 15. CD1: Lowlands Away – Rufus Wainwright & Kate McGarrigle 16. CD1: Baltimore Whores – Gavin Friday 17. CD1: Rolling Sea – Eliza Carthy 18. CD1: The Mermaid – Martin Carthy & the UK Group 19. CD1: Haul On The Bowline – Bob Neuwirth 20. CD1: A Dying Sailor to His Shipmates – Bono 21. CD1: Bonnie Portmore – Lucinda Williams 22. CD1: Shenandoah – Richard Greene & Jack Shit 23. CD1: The Cry Of Man – Mary Margaret O’Hara 24. CD2: Boney – Jack Shit 25. CD2: Good Ship Venus – Loudon Wainwright III 26. CD2: Long Time Ago – White Magic 27. CD2: Pinery Boy – Nick Cave 28. CD2: Lowlands Low – Bryan Ferry w/ Antony 29. CD2: One Spring Morning – Akron/Family 30. CD2: Hog Eye Man – Martin Carthy & family 31. CD2: The Fiddler – Ricky Jay & Richard Greene 32. CD2: Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold – Andrea Corr 33. CD2: Fathom The Bowl – John C. Reilly 34. CD2: Drunken Sailor – David Thomas 35. CD2: Farewell Nancy – Ed Harcourt 36. CD2: Hanging Johnny – Stan Ridgway 37. CD2: Old Man of The Sea – Baby Gramps 38. CD2: Greenland Whale Fisheries – Van Dyke Parks 39. CD2: Shallow Brown – Sting 40. CD2: The Grey Funnel Line – Jolie Holland 41. CD2: A Drop of Nelson’s Blood – Jarvis Cocker 42. CD2: Leave Her Johnny – Lou Reed 43. CD2: Little Boy Billy – Ralph Steadman |
Credits |
The Cry of Man Mary Margaret O’Hara – vocal; Kate St. John – oboe, accordion, English horn; Rory McFarlane – bass; David Coulter – saw; Terry Edwards – flugelhorn; Joe Berardi – percussion; Pietra Wextun – piano; Stan Ridgway – harmonica Recorded in Los Angeles at NRG – Engineered by Eric Liljestrand, assisted by Dave Colvin. Here is a musical setting of a poem by Harry Kemp (1883-1960). Kemp was famous (or infamous) as a bohemian and boxcar poet. He lived much of his life in Greenwich Village. He also lived in shacks, rode freight cars, and as a young man, ran away to sea. |