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...
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