NEW SONG “SHENANDOAH” FEATURING TOM WAITS AND KEITH RICHARDS PREMIERES ON NPR
For Immediate Release January 8, 2013
NEW SONG “SHENANDOAH” FEATURING TOM WAITS AND KEITH RICHARDS PREMIERES ON
NPR’S “ALL SONGS CONSIDERED”
HAL WILLNER PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS
SON OF ROGUES GALLERY:
PIRATE BALLADS, SEA SONGS & CHANTEYS OUT
FEBRUARY 19 ON ANTI- RECORDS
TWO DISC SET FEATURING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM
TOM WAITS, KEITH RICHARDS, JOHNNY DEPP, PATTI SMITH,
NICK CAVE, COURTNEY LOVE, MICHAEL STIPE AND IGGY POP
AMONG OTHERS
“His far-ranging musical sensibility makes Willner the perfect man for this job…”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
“…relevant and underappreciated folk music.”—Chicago Tribune
The new track “Shenandoah” off of the highly anticipated Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys, produced by Hal Willner, is streaming at: [link]. Of the song, which features Tom Waits and Keith Richards, Willner notes, “Each time I have managed to maneuver Waits and Richards into a studio over the last 25 years or so, it always results in one for the history books. With ‘Shenandoah’ they collaborate and there is no word in the English language to describe it…as good as music gets.”
The compilation two-disc recording of sea shanties will be released February 19 on Anti-Records and is executive produced by Johnny Depp and Gore Verbinski, featuring Tom Waits, Keith Richards, Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, Patti Smith, Sean Lennon and many more. The album is a follow up to Willner’s 2006 production, Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys (Anti-), which The New York Times praised as “a strong album with heart as well as ideas” and Entertainment Weekly hailed “a revelatory folk-song collection with the sea in the leading role.” See below for track listing.
Best known for his tribute records, covering the music of Thelonious Monk, Kurt Weill and Harold Arlen among others, Willner came up with the idea for Rogues Gallery compilations with actor Depp and director Verbinski while on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (second installment in the movie saga).
For more information, please contact Mary Moyer or Carla Sacks
Sacks & Co., 212.741.1000, cami.opere@sacksco.com, mary@sacksco.com, carla@sacksco.com.
Track Listing
Disc 1:
1. Leaving of Liverpool (Shane MacGowan w/Johnny Depp & Gore Verbinski)
2. Sam's Gone Away (Robyn Hitchcock)
3. River Come Down (Beth Orton)
4. Row Bullies Row (Sean Lennon w/Jack Shit)
5. Shenandoah (Tom Waits w/Keith Richards)
6. Mr. Stormalong (Ivan Neville)
7. Asshole Rules the Navy (Iggy Pop w/A Hawk and a Hacksaw)
8. Off to Sea Once More (Macy Gray)
9. The Ol’ OG (Ed Harcourt)
10. Pirate Jenny (Shilpa Ray w/Nick Cave & Warren Ellis)
11. The Mermaid (Patti Smith & Johnny Depp)
12. Anthem for Old Souls (Chuck E. Weiss)
13. Orange Claw Hammer (Ed Pastorini)
14. Sweet and Low (The Americans)
15. Ye Mariners All (Robin Holcomb & Jessica Kenny)
16. Tom's Gone to Hilo (Gavin Friday and Shannon McNally)
17. Bear Away (Kenny Wollesen & The Himalayas Marching Band)
Disc 2:
1. Handsome Cabin Boy (Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention)
2. Rio Grande (Michael Stipe & Courtney Love)
3. Ship in Distress (Marc Almond)
4. In Lure of the Tropics (Dr. John)
5. Rolling Down to Old Maui (Todd Rundgren)
6. Jack Tar on Shore (Dan Zanes w/Broken Social Scene)
7. Sally Racket (Sissy Bounce (Katey Red & Big Freedia) with Akron/Family)
8. Wild Goose (Broken Social Scene)
9. Flandyke Shore (Marianne Faithfull w/Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
10. The Chantey of Noah and his Ark (Old School Song) (Ricky Jay)
11. Whiskey Johnny (Michael Gira)
12. Sunshine Life for Me (Petra Haden w/Lenny Pickett)
13. Row the Boat Child (Jenni Muldaur)
14. General Taylor (Richard Thompson w/Jack Shit)
15. Marianne (Tim Robbins w/Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs)
16. Barnacle Bill the Sailor (Kembra Phaler w/Antony/Joseph Arthur/Foetus)
17. Missus McGraw (Angelica Huston w/The Weisberg Strings)
18. The Dreadnought (Iggy Pop & Elegant Too)
19. Then Said the Captain to Me (Two Poems of the Sea) (Mary Margaret O'Hara)
For more information, please contact Mary Moyer or Carla Sacks
Sacks & Co., 212.741.1000, cami.opere@sacksco.com, mary@sacksco.com, carla@sacksco.com.