SEA SHANTIES and LOGGER’S SONGS – FOLKWAYS 10” – SEALED - SCARCE
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Mar 8, 2015 Sold Date
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“Sea Shanties and Logger’s Songs” performed by Sam Eskin.

Folkways Records #FA-2019.  10” Record / Pictorial jacket – SEALED COPY!!!     

Tracks include: “A Shanty-Man’s Life”, “Riverdriver’s Song”, “The Little Brown Bulls”, “The Piner Boy”, “Poor Paddy Works on the Railway”, “The Rio Grande”, “Clear the Track, Let the Bulgine Run”, “Heave Away, My Johnny”, “Boney”, “Johnny Comes Down to Hilo”, “The Sailor Loves”, “Paddy Doyle’s Boots”, “A Hundred Years Ago”, and “Across the Western Ocean (It’s Time for us to Leave Her)”.

Sam Eskin, according to the album's original notes in 1951, 'has been traveling across the United States for thirty-five years, learning songs from all sorts of people in all sorts of places.' This fascinating collection of work songs is the product of Eskin's wandering and includes extensive notes about life in logging camps.

Record is in MINT condition. (Please note following condition items: Sealed copy, so cannot verify condition, but assuming “as new”)

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