Music / folk

Son of Rogue's gallery : pirate ballads, sea songs & chanteys


Reviews (3)


Gaffa [online]

d. 26. Feb. 2013

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Espen Strunk

d. 26. Feb. 2013

"For syv år siden fik vi den glimtvis glimrende antologi Rogue's Gallery ... Nu stævner nærværende opfølger så ud og sætter sejl lige ind i en mindre folk-revival båret af britiske navne som Mumford & Sons, Bellowhead med flere. Derudover er den nye samling ganske på linje med forgængeren på den led, at adskillige veritable (sørøver)skatte sidder side om side med trods alt mindre uomgængelige tag på de gamle forlæg".


The guardian

d. 28. Feb. 2013

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Robin Denselow

d. 28. Feb. 2013

"Seven years ago, maverick producer Hal Willner recorded the gloriously free-wheeling Rogues Gallery; now, at last, comes the follow-up. It includes a raucous, stomping Leaving of Liverpool from Shane MacGowan, and an extraordinary treatment of Shenandoah featuring growled vocals from Tom Waits ... Patchy, maybe, but for the most part it's enormous fun".


fRoots

2013 April

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Ian Anderson

2013 April

"When I escaped the real world into folk clubs as a teenager, I regularly encountered hearty, bearded and pullovered accountants and civil servants bellowing shanty choruses, tankards akimbo, although none had probably been nearer the ocean wave than a pedalo. And that sort of put me off... But these songs lurk in your subconscious, somehow known and terribly familiar. Thus it was when the first Rogue's Gallery popped up ... There's nothing like a few musicians with imagination and no preconcieved ideas to breathe new life into damaged songs ... Son Of... is a delightful chip off the old block, full of more inspired quirkiness. Every time you play it (...) you uncover more delights, often in the tracks which might have snuck past unnoticed the previous time (Beth Orton's River Come Down and The Americans' oddly Okinawan-tinged old-timey Sweet And Low being cases in point) ... A bit of a classic, your honour, in a nice pack with properly extensive credits".



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