About this minute
- Title
- 59 Composed - The Roaring Trowmen - Hooker John
- Performer
- The Roaring Trowmen
- Recordist
- Stef Hambrook
- Collections
- Bristol Collection 1
- Related resource guides
- Composed Sounds , A Cappella Voices , Call and response , Folk , Harmony , Melody , Pitch , Tempo , Texture , Traditional , Verse and chorus structure
Bristol 1 #59
That was the sound of a song called “Hooker John”, performed by a group called The Roaring Trowmen. This is a traditional sea shanty which would have been sung by cotton-stowers – men who loaded ships with huge bales of cotton, a material used to make clothes. In this song, did you hear how the…
