Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends

UK special edition pressing includes bonus tracks. The Fisherman’s Friends are shanty singers–each of whom are or have been fishermen, lifeboat men and coastguards (as well as builders, artisans, hoteliers, and shop keepers) in the local area–from Port Isaac on Cornwall’s rugged north coast. At around eight in the evening during the summer months, tourists and locals gather to hear this ten-man group sing a rousing set of shanties and Cornish folk songs. This album, recorded in a 15th-century…