Round Cape Horn

Various Artists | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: November 10, 1998
• Label: Topic
• Copyright: 1998 Topic
• Genres: Folk/Compilations, Folk/Traditional British & Celtic Folk, Folk/Traditional Folk
• ASIN: B000S569Q6
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #209,053 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Authentic-sounding chanties, July 20, 2008

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Johnathan Bracken (NYC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Round Cape Horn: Traditional Songs of Sailors, Ships & the Sea (Audio CD)

If you want to know how sea chanties originally sounded on the decks and under them back in the 18th and 19th centuries, this is an album for you. It can be a time-consuming process to sort through the load of sea chanty albums out there that when you're trying to find the traditional sound. Therefore, if you like the sound of this album I also recommend the following albums, composed by various performers including some on this album: Blow the Man Down; Sailors' Songs & Sea Shanties; Shanties & Songs of the Sea. These albums have a great mix of emotion in them, from rip-roarin' drinking songs to inspirational working songs to melancholy tunes about ships that were swallowed up by the sea. Round Cape Horn generally has a more relaxed (and sometimes more sombre) tone with a couple exceptions.

5.0 out of 5 stars authentic life at sea, October 19, 2010

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Kip F Palmer (Hermosa Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Round Cape Horn: Traditional Songs of Sailors, Ships & the Sea (Audio CD)

For the record I am no expert on sea shanties, just a life long sailor and I find that listening to this CD (which I purchased on a whim) really touches your soul with what it must have been like during the age of sail ... and my two kids 5 and 7 for some reason can't get enough of it and will play it continuously, learning a bit more of the stories contained within each time they do ...