Dan Milner - Irish Pirate Ballads and Other Songs of the Sea (2009)

Pirates, shanghaiers, slavers, and smugglers are just some of the central characters in this album of lusty, authentic maritime songs; others are ardent patriots, hard-pressed immigrants, and weathered sailors sheltering in the taverns of the seven seas. All are midway between some dicey spot in life and an uncertain future. Their compelling stories of bold adventure are excitingly re-told here by an all-star crew of Irish singers and musicians led by vocalist/author Dan Milner.
Featuring an impressive array of guest musicians and singers, including Joanie Madden of Cherish the Ladies, John Doyle of Solas, Tim Collins of the renowned Kilfenora Ceili Band, All-Ireland champion fiddler Brian Conway, Robbie O'Connell and Susan McKeown, Irish Pirate Ballads captures centuries of tradition and the revelry, mischief, tales of love and caution that characterize nautical life.

Milner "really gets inside a song and brings it alive," writes New York University professor Mick Moloney, who also appears on the album. "It's impossible not to be drawn in by the imagery of these songs and the absorbing stories they tell of memorable rakes, adventurers and scoundrels."

Tracklist:
1.01 - Dan Milner - Ten Thousand Miles Away (3:38)
1.02 - Dan Milner - The Ballad of Ó Bruadair / Out on the Ocean (3:55)
1.03 - Dan Milner - Saucy Ward (4:15)
1.04 - Dan Milner - Captain Coulston (5:39)
1.05 - Dan Milner - Granuaile (3:49)
1.06 - Dan Milner - Get Up Jack, John, Sit Down / Miss Thornton’s (4:33)
1.07 - Dan Milner - The Flying Cloud (6:28)
1.08 - Bob Conroy - Larry Maher’s Big Five-Gallon Jar (3:16)
1.09 - Dan Milner - Bold McCarthy (The City of Baltimore) (4:42)
1.10 - Dan Milner - All for Me Grog / Parnell’s March (3:57)
1.11 - Dan Milner - Castle Gardens (Sixty Years Ago) (4:58)
1.12 - Brian Conway - The Lowlands Low (4:16)
1.13 - Dan Milner - The River Lea (5:34)