Fisherman friends

Suck 'Em And Sea - Selected Tracks

Folk

shanties

Michael McClanathan plays The Dark Island on the highland pipes.

The Dark Island

10000 Miles Away

The Worst Old Ship

So Early In The Morning

Good Morning Ladies All

This track is from the album Doors at Eight (Live) and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/gigspanner

The Butterfly (Live)

From the album Layers of Ages, available from www.gigspanner.com

King of the Fairies

From the album 'Layers of Ages' an improvisation around the tune 'She Moved Through The Fair'. 
Album available from www.gigspanner.com

She Moved Through The Fair

A few tracks from an older album release 'Suck 'Em And Sea'.
Every track was recorded A Capella and saw us all finding our voices!

Enjoy a blast from the past

This Dreadful Life

Haul Away Joe

Sloop John B

Essequibo River

Alabama John Cherokee

An traditional sea shanty performed by Cornwall shanty crew Du Hag Owr.

This track, along with other traditional and original songs, are included on the CD album "Carrick Roads", which is available to buy from our website at www.duhagowr.co.uk

Mumford and Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, and Old Crow Medicine Show performing This Train is Bound For Glory, an American Gospel song from the 1920's in Austin, Texas on 4/26/2011

See Video Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Kb2uciHpe4U#!

If you want to play along, the chord progression is A | E7 | A | A7 | D | D7 | A | E | A 

This Train is Bound For Glory

The Fisherman's Friends are an 8-piece shanty band from Cornwall who have delighted audiences for over 25 years.
There's no gang leader, no choir master and no holds barred in the singing of The Fisherman's Friends..... and fisherman's friends they truly are.
Their success has taken the musical buoys to the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival, The Royal Albert Hall and countless festivals and venues across the UK and Europe.
If saucy, bawdy, fruity, foot-stomping songs of the sea are your thing then the Fisherman's Friends are the group for you.
Current Members are:
Jon Cleave
John McDonnell
Jason Nicholas
Billy Hawkins
John Lethbridge
Toby Lobb
John Brown
Jeremy Brown