#Baby gramps tour professional#
Out of the Pacific Northwest, he’s part ragtime, hokum and country bluesman, poet, medicine show minstrel, songster and professional boxcar bum with a fondness for old (and often forgotten) folk, vaudeville and novelty numbers, corny jokes and the dictionary. "Review of the DVD "I Shall Continuum: Live in Greenvich Village""Ī healthy visual dose of just some of the delightfully eccentric facets and niches of Baby Gramps’ mainly manic musical personality.
Vanity Fair - September 2006 ~ Review by Edward Helmore "Even if we don't know sea songs, they've influenced every type of music - you can hear them in Wagner, in country music, in the Beatles." Some obvious crew members were left ashore - Keith Richards fell from a tree Shane MacGowan was indisposed - so others came aboard for them, including the unknown Baby Gramps, who offers "Cape Cod Girls" in a fashion as arresting and strange as any you are likely to hear. "There's something very familiar in the songs," says the producer. The 43 songs collected here tell evocative stories of the sea - of cruel captains, scuppered vessels, distant homes, drunken sailors and wenches.
#Baby gramps tour series#
With the backing of Johnny Depp and Pirates of the Caribbean series director, Gore Verbinski, Captain Willner pressed willing friends like Bono, Sting, Nick Cave, Bryan Ferry, Lou Reed, Lucinda Williams, Teddy Thompson, Ralph Steadman, Van Dyke Parks, and Rufus Wainwright to come aboard his pirate ship and sing traditional sea chanteys in their particular styles. "Cape Cod girls, they don't use no combs.they comb their hair on the codfish bones" - so goes the first line of Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys, a two-CD album out this month from the adventurous and storied rock producer Hal Willner.
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