Artist: Various
Release: Son Of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys
Discogs: 4318712
Released: 2013-02-00
Label: Anti-
Catalog#: Anti-6904-2
Format: FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue / 2 x CD, Compilation
Country: Europe
Style: Folk, World, & Country, Folk Rock

Tracklisting:

1-1. Shane MacGowan - Leaving Of Liverpool (4:01)
1-2. Robyn Hitchcock - Sam's Gone Away (2:45)
1-3. Beth Orton - Bamboo (River Come Down) (6:18)
1-4. Sean Lennon, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Jack Shit - Row Bullies Row (4:08)
1-5. Tom Waits, Keith Richards - Shenandoah (4:03)
1-6. Ivan Neville - Mr. Stormalong (4:06)
1-7. Iggy Pop, A Hawk And A Hacksaw - Asshole Rules The Navy (2:04)
1-8. Macy Gray - Off To Sea Once More (5:02)
1-9. Ed Harcourt - The Ol' OG (3:27)
1-10. Shilpa Ray, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - Pirate Jenny (7:31)
1-11. Patti Smith, Johnny Depp - The Mermaid (2:25)
1-12. Chuck E. Weiss - Anthem For Old Souls (4:31)
1-13. Ed Pastorini - Orange Claw Hammer (3:18)
1-14. The Americans - Sweet And Low (3:30)
1-15. Robin Holcomb, Jessika Kenney - Ye Mariners All (4:25)
1-16. Gavin Friday, Shannon McNally - Tom's Gone To Hilo (4:51)
1-17. Kenny Wollesen, The Himalayas - Bear Away (5:36)
2-1. Frank Zappa, The Mothers - Wedding Dress Song/Handsome Cabin Boy (2:36)
2-2. Michael Stipe, Courtney Love, Jack Shit - Rio Grande (2:47)
2-3. Marc Almond - Ship In Distress (2:30)
2-4. Dr. John - In Lure Of The Tropics (5:02)
2-5. Todd Rundgren - Rolling Down To Old Maui (3:46)
2-6. Dan Zanes, Broken Social Scene - Jack Tar On Shore (3:10)
2-7. Katey Red, Big Freedia, Akron/Family - Sally Racket (2:57)
2-8. Broken Social Scene - Wild Goose (6:10)
2-9. Marianne Faithfull, Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Flandyke Shore (3:10)
2-10. Ricky Jay - The Chantey Of Noah And His Ark (Old School Song) (6:18)
2-11. Michael Gira - Whiskey Johnny (2:17)
2-12. Petra Haden, Lenny Pickett - Sunshine Life For Me (3:44)
2-13. Jenni Muldaur - Row The Boat Child (2:35)
2-14. Richard Thompson, Jack Shit - General Taylor (3:53)
2-15. Tim Robbins, Matthew Sweet, Susanna Hoffs - Marianne (4:21)
2-16. Kembra Pfahler - Barnacle Bill The Sailor (3:31)
2-17. Anjelica Huston - Missus McGraw (5:09)
2-18. Iggy Pop, Elegant Too - The Dreadnought (2:32)
2-19. Mary Margaret O'Hara - Then Said The Captain To Me (Two Poems Of The Sea) (1:49)

Credits: Show

Avast and haul along the bowline, let loose the topsail and tighten the topgallants… It’s Vol. 2 of one of the oddest collections you’re ever likely to lend your landlubber ears to.
In the past, coordinator Hal Willner has supervised tribute albums to Kurt Weill, Leonard Cohen and Walt Disney, but this time he’s back on board with Johnny Depp for another star-studded voyage. The original Rogues Gallery in 2006 apparently came about when Willner was working with Depp on Pirates of the Caribbean, and both became fascinated by the songs that the pirates might have sung. 
As on the original, a right rum bunch have been press-ganged into service: Tom Waits, Macy Gray, Beth Orton, Frank Zappa… And isn’t this Michael Stipe’s first recording (Rio Grande, with Courtney Love) since R.E.M. split?
The very nature of sea shanties (or chanteys) is that they are intensely melodic and demand to be sung along to. They were originally intended to make the sailors work faster, because the old clipper captains reasoned, “If the men don’t sing right, the ship don’t move right”.
So you get Sean Lennon on the jaunty and aptly Liverpudlian Row Bullies Row, and Patti Smith and Depp’s The Mermaid. Waits’ gruff Shenandoah finds him in the company of that old pirate Keith Richards, while Iggy Pop makes a suitably bawdy contribution and the magnificent Richard Thompson gets under the skin of General Taylor.
There’s a sultry Dr John on In Lure of the Tropics, a macho Marc Almond (Ship in Distress), and a dissolute Leaving of Liverpool from Shane MacGowan, which leaves the impression of grog on the disc. But there are also poignant moments on Tom’s Gone to Hilo (Gavin Friday and Shannon McNally) and Flandyke Shore (Marianne Faithfull with Kate and Anna McGarrigle).
All in all, it’s a refreshingly varied voyage. And if you want to stretch your sea legs further, set sail towards Highpoint/Topic Records’ 2004 collection, Sailors’ Songs & Sea Shanties…