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Origin
  
Cornell University

Name
  
John Roberts

Labels
  
Golden Hind Music

Years active
  
1969—

Genres
  
Traditional folk music


John Roberts (musician)

Associated acts
  
Roberts and Barrand Nowell Sing We Clear Ye Mariners All Broken String Band

Musician life lil john roberts


John Roberts (born 1940s) is an English musician residing in Schenectady, New York.

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He is best known for his musical collaborations with Tony Barrand. As Roberts and Barrand, they perform a cappella and accompanied performances of traditional English folk music. They also perform and record fare such as sea shanties of the North Atlantic, and an album of traditional drinking songs. The duo is also half of the related act Nowell Sing We Clear—which in addition to a number of albums—performs an annual yuletide concert series.

Born in England, Roberts moved to the United States to study graduate level psychology at Cornell University, where he formed his ongoing music partnership with Tony Barrand in 1968.

Roberts also has a solo career, is a member of the trio Ye Mariners All (with John Rockwell and Larry Young), and performs regularly with upstate New York's Broken String Band.

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Solo

Sea Fever (2003) Golden Hind Music

  1. "Campañero"
  2. "Diego's Bold Shore"
  3. "The Bonny Ship the Diamond"
  4. "Candlelight Fisherman"
  5. "Farewell Nancy"
  6. "The Weeping Willow Tree"
  7. "The Boatman's Cure"
  8. "Short Jacket and White Trousers"
  9. "Sir Patrick Spens"
  10. "Let the Bulgine Run/Sally in the Garden/Hog-Eye Man"
  11. "The Black Cook"
  12. "The Saucy Sailor"
  13. "The Old Figurehead Carver"
  14. "What Fortunes Guide a Sailor/Leave Her Johnny"

Ye Mariners All

Songs of the Sea (2003) Golden Hind Music

  1. "The 'Fame' of Salem"
  2. "Marcherot"
  3. "The Steam Packet"
  4. "Wings of a Goney"
  5. "Pique la Baleine"
  6. "Three Jolly Fishermen"
  7. "Jack Robinson"
  8. "Old Billy Riley-O"
  9. "Hourra les Filles"
  10. "Serafina"
  11. "Rolling Down to Old Maui"
  12. "Yangtse River Chantey"
  13. "The 'Balaena'"
  14. "Hullabaloo Belay"
  15. "You Gentlemen of Boston"
  16. "Nantucket Point/Off She Goes"
  17. "Noah's Ark Chantey"
  18. "The 'Jamestown' Homeward Bound"

Roberts and Barrand

  • Spencer the Rover is Alive and Well… (1971, 2001)
  • Across the Western Ocean (1973, 2000)
  • Mellow With Ale From the Horn (1975)
  • Dark Ships in the Forest (1977, 1997)
  • Live at Holsteins! (1983)
  • A Present from the Gentlemen (1992)
  • Naulakha Redux (1997)
  • Heartoutbursts (1998)
  • Twiddlum Twaddlum (2003)

    • Nowell Sing We Clear

  • Nowell Sing We Clear (1977)
  • To Welcome In The Spring (1980)
  • The Second Nowell (1981)
  • Nowell Sing We Clear, Vol. 3 (1985)
  • Nowell Sing We Four (1988)
  • the best of Nowell Sing We Clear 1975–1986 (1989)
  • Hail Smiling Morn! (1995)
  • Just Say Nowell (2000)
  • Nowell Nowell Nowell! (2008)

    • References

    John Roberts (musician) Wikipedia
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