re: #324 Barefoot Grin

Don’t know about Tanimura, but a significant number of “traditional ballad” (once) performers are actually of Korean descent. Lots of songs about waiting in the port for long-gone fisherman husband/lover, etc.

Interesting! Another thread to check out.

Often ‘outsiders’ can better summarize a culture than the members themselves. In the 1990’s a Romanian friend talked that way about her country’s music and how much of it came from Gypsy’s.

Now you have me thinking about the Scots-Irish songs about fishing. Perhaps the saddest, at least for me, is “Night Falls” by the Browne Sisters on their Castle Dangerous album. It is from the perspective of a woman whose husband goes off to sea and never returns. Unfortunately I cannot find it online right now.

One of the more uplifting boat sinking songs is “The Mary Ellen Carter” by Stan Rogers. (The song is from the 1970’s, the prices are a bit out of date. :) )

Stan Rogers - The Mary Ellen Carter

edited: to fix typos (sea instead of see)