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Coming up:
McGrath, Benson, and Bennett at the farm! Sweet Berry Farm, that is, in Middletown, RI. Tuesday July 20, 6 to 8 PM. Bring blankets or dropcloths, and your own chairs. It says here that there will be food available.
Look for us at the Seafood Festival on Bowen's Wharf. We'll give Sunday a jump-start on October 17th, at 11 AM.
How about this! We're on Youtube! Jim Bennett and the rest singing "Waltzing with Bears" at Mahogany Shoals in 2007. It starts in the middle, but what the heck. Video'd by Peter Voskamp, without whose encouragement and active assistance the "Whiskey Johnny" CD would not exist. Thanks Peter! (That's Uncle Walter on the far right.)
New CD!
12 songs including 9 originals by Jim McGrath, or 10, or ten-and-a-half, depending how you count them.
With additional guitar, banjo, mandolin, accordion, fiddle, and piano accompaniment.
Listen to music clips and order from Wepecket Island Records.
Also on Wepecket Island, from 2007: Red Right Returning.
Click the cover to go to the catalog listing, or browse the Wepecket Island catalog.
Also listed at CD Baby, with music clips, and Maritime Heritage Network.
Press! Marilyn Bellemore in Newport This Week.
If you like this page, you ought to look at the new website that the Wepecket Island people set up for Jim. It's much prettier than this one.
Block Island mystery manuscript.
One Pelham East in Newport, back in 1977. The ship reflected in the window is  .
Look for Rose in the film Master and Commander: Far Side of the World. She has the starring role. Aside from Russell Crowe. |
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About thirty years later (2005, to be exact). |
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The new CD is the old tape is the old 1977 album.
Own them all! All traditional songs, except for "The Old Black Pearl" and "The Ballad of the Zubenelgenubi," which are Jim McGrath originals. | |
A few kinda home-made, uh, hand-crafted, that's it, copies of the Whiskey Johnny CD might be available, at $20 including shipping. You can with PayPal. PayPal is having some programming problems with ordering more than one item with these buttons, so this button is good for one (1) CD only. If you need more, or if you would prefer a cassette—sorry, the vinyl's all gone—bless you, and please email for info. | ||
And then there's Jim's 1999 CD
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Ramblin' Boys Ashore |
Fud can be heard on
Steady As She Goes,
which has been hard to find for a while
but is now for sale from Elderly.
Click the cover to go straight to the catalog listing.
Songs and Chanties from the days of Commercial Sail
Louis Killen - Jeff Warner - Gerret Warner - Fud Benson
Jeff Warner has copies for sale, also.
Here's one more picture,
three out of four on the deck of HMS Rose.
I'll sing you a song, a good song of the sea
And now for something completely different ...
A manuscript left on the piano at the Mahogany Shoals bar at Payne's Dock after the 2004 Block Island shows. No idea who wrote it. Warning: this is a big graphic, about 360 Kbytes, so if you're on dialup, go fix a cuppa tea, or something, while it's loading.
