I've been listening to a birthday present, Pirates' Gold by the Jolly Rogers.
Maybe you've seen them at Renaissance Festivals, I believe they used to do a fairly thorough tour of that, in more recent years focusing on KC and Iowa. Apparently travelling year round as a singing pirate has too much in common with actual life at sea. Not conducing to family, hearth and home stuff.
It's traditional sea chanties and bawdy folk songs sung, as they were meant, by a bunch of guys in codpieces and all that. Sometimes acapella, sometimes with my old friend Mayhem playing guitar. Occasionally an electric guitar on their studio recordings, which I tend to think is a mistake, and sometimes with one of Mark's rock & roll bits in the mix, which doesn't really fit.
But like their debut, No Quarter, Pirates' Gold is pretty much the purist's stuff. The double album Loose Cannons is another fave, but my favorite of the two discs got scratched up when it fell into the wrong hands a couple of years ago. Mark has indicated he's willing to burn me a dupe since it's out of print, but our best intentions to get together for a drink and do that keep seeming to derail.
Anyway, you won't find their stuff on Amazon, at least I haven't been able to. No ISBN number, no chance to offer it to Amazon for 55% of what you sell it to the public for.
They do have some online sales, so if you can't find them at a Ren Fest, follow the trail of crumbs. Very worth it. They have a new album just out, and I'm looking forward to it.
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