Bob's much-in-demand 1995 cassette recording of traditional shanties and
sailors' songs, now available for the first time on CD. Twenty-two tracks,
including 19 traditional songs from the days of square-riggers and three
contemporary songs of the sea. Three tracks not on the cassette are
included, and all tracks have been digitally remastered from the original
session and manufacturing DAT tapes. Vocal and instrumental backing by the
legendary Liverpool shanty group Stormalong John, plus "Shanty
Jack" of Hull, England. Unaccompanied singing like the days of sail, plus
accompaniments on concertinas, accordion, bones, and gut-string five-string
banjo. South Australia, Hello Somebody!, The Hogeye Man, The Florida's
Cruise, Haul Away for Rosie-O, Dear Old Liverpool Town, The Rope with the
Golden Strands, The Plains of Mexico and 14 more. CD RWA
4512
$15.95 plus shipping and handling
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Full Circle: The Solo Banjo Sessions
Twenty one songs and tunes on banjo, the best from eight
sessions recorded by David Peloquin at Night Sail Studios in Windsor,
Maine during 2006-7. Many of Bob's best-known pieces are included:
The Cuckoo Bird, Last Chance, Sally in the Garden, Fall
on My Knees, Wild Bill Jones, When Johnny Comes Down to Hilo,
Charleston, and more -- plus three new tunes by Bob himself.
Six different banjos are represented: two conventional instruments, an
Appalachian fretless "banjer," a minstrel-era replica with gut
strings, a wooden-headed Ozark-Mountains fretless, and a "mandoline-banjo"
-- a five-string banjo neck mated with a mandola body. CD RWA 7405
$15.95 plus shipping & handling
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Bank Trollers: Songs of
the Sea Sea
music from the U.S. and Canada, including two rare shanties and 15 more songs
old and new, concerning rumrunners, fishermen, towboats and deepwater sailing.
CD RWA 0206
Cluck
Old Hen: Celebrating 150 Years of the Rhode Island Red
Southern
Appalachian and Country Blues Music with Bob Webb (banjo, fretless
banjo, guitar, vocals), Craig Edwards (fiddle, bottleneck guitar, vocals) and
Helen Richmond Webb (guitar, vocals). Fifteen songs and old-time tunes. CD
RWA 4303
Sailor-Painter: The Uncommon Life of Charles Robert Patterson
(Mystic, CT: Flat
Hammock Press) The sea-paintings of
Charles Robert Patterson (1878-1958) revived nautical art by combining of
years of seafaring experience in square-rigged vessels with academic art
training. He burst on the scene in 1921-2, at the start of the "ship
lovers" movement that hoped to preserve the last of the age of
sail. His paintings brought a realistic glory to the ship on deep water,
and his talent was rewarded with many prestigious commissions. Richly
illustrated, with 10 plates in color.
To order Sailor-Painter inscribed
and/or signed by the author securely online, add the number of
items to the shopping cart below. Please include inscription
information. $55.00 plus shipping & handling
Ring the Banjar!: The Banjo in America from Folklore to Factory.
Second edition (Anaheim Hills, California: Centerstream Press): the first comprehensive history of the banjo from days of slavery to modern, technological instruments, well-illustrated with historical photographs and full-page color images of great banjos. A standard work.
$24.95 plus shipping & handling
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On the Northwest: Commercial Whaling in the Pacific Northwest 1790-1967
(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press): Bob's award-winning history of whaling on the Northwest Coast of America, from native whaling in cedar canoes to modern steam-whaling from shoreside processing factories. Bob details the difficult and
all- consuming development of the whaling industry from Washington State to the Bering Strait.
Contact UBC Press for availability
Concert Booking Information
Contact Bob here for lecture or concert information
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