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Yaaarrr! Pirate Music!

‘Vast there! Ye landed on the pirate music page, full ‘o tuneful booty for jolly jack tars and doe-eyed wenches all! Nuttin’ pirated ‘ere, only piratical, grand, grand for yerself or as a gift. Now buy a CD quick-like, ‘afore I send ye to Davy Jones Locker!

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Axel the Sot (Details)
  Songs to Sing When You're Drunk! (2008) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
[Warning: Adult Material] Axel the Sot's music is an assortment of very naughty songs. They are best enjoyed when you are drunk. But even if you're sober, you're bound to laugh, blush, guffaw and chuckle at these dirty ditties sung in the way that only Axel the Sot can sing them... Drunk! Heard on Doctor Demento with his original hit song, "Beer is Better Than Women,” Axel the Sot is currently touring and celebrating his 21st year as a comedian and drunken sailor. This is Axel's first comedy CD in five years.
  Tales from the Tavern (2005) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
[Warning: Adult Material] Axel the Sot (Scott Hendricks) has been performing his adult Comedy Pub Show! at Renaissance festivals, medieval faires, clubs and pubs, and on television and radio around the United States for the past 18 years. He has also made the Doctor Demento "Funny Five" List on numorous occasions with his hit song: "Beer is Better Than Women".
B.O.O.M. Pirates (Details)
  Prepare to be Boarded (2008) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Music to plunder by. An acoustic collection of pirate themed music featuring traditional sea shanties, original compositions & familiar contemporary sounds; all woven together by dramatic interludes which tell the tale of a renegade life on the sea.
Ben Gunn Society, The (Details)
  The Ben Gunn Society (2003) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Take a classic pirate story, turn it on its head, add wit, humor and catchy tunes, and behold The Ben Gunn Society.
Captain Black Jack Murphy, Pirate Extraordinare (Details)
  Pogue Mahone Means Kiss My Arse (2008) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
I'm "Captain Black Jack" Murphy, Pirate Extraordinaire, of the pirate ship IRISH STOUT. I've plundered the seven seas for twelve years now and I'm tired. The Royal Navy is getting awfully bitchy. So instead of pirating ships, I decided to record an album of sea shanties and drinking songs and pirate music. It's a much more respectable living considering the Major Record Labels are stealing more from musicians than we pirates have EVER done!
Captain Bogg & Salty (Details)
  Prelude to Mutiny (2006) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
A Disneyland ride soundtrack of chanteys and punk rock
  Pegleg Tango (2005) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Pirate rock for buccaneers of all ages.
  Bedtime Stories for Pirate (1999) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Buccaneers of all ages will enjoy this album of pirate jigs, galloping rock and mermaid lullabies.
Captain Dan & the Scurvy Crew (Details)
  From the Seas to the Streets (2009) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
The most epic collection of pirate hip hop songs ever produced.
  Rimes of the Hip Hop Mariners (2007) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
The 2nd release from the only rap crew with buccaneer technique. This album features pirate hip hop about everything from wenches to sea monsters.
  Authentic Pirate Hip Hop (2006) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
A pirate and his scurvy crew swashbuckling with their phat rhymes.
Capt'n. Black's Sea Dogges (Details)
  Capt'n. Black's Sea Dogges (2008) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Original and traditional sea shanties for the pirate or privateer in everyone. Guitar, mandolin, bodhran, drums, and tight harmonies in songs for all ages.
Hucklescary Finn (Details)
  Pirates of Scamalot (2006) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Rock songs and acoustic ballads from a pirate's perspective, and chronicling the lives of Scabby the Pirate, Captain Jennifer and Otis Rex.
Jessie Modic (Details)
  Saltarello: Songs & Stories (2004) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Aargh - rollicking Celtic and Classical pirate songs, children's sea-songs, and humorous storytelling with pirates, Selkies, mermaids and fisherfolk blend together with fiddle, harp, flute and children's voices for a delightful romp on the high seas.
Jim Hancock/Burly Pirates (Details)
  Blood on the Boards (2008) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Powerful vocals with exciting instrumentals, this acoustic folk album of sea-faring songs will transport the listener across the farthest oceans to another time and place.
Musical Blades (Details)
  Live at Pubs and Pirate-Core (2009) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Released for old, new, and soon-to-be fans. Here you'll find LIVE performances of the group, as well as long loved traditional sea songs, to bang your head to. Plus three BONUS tracks.
  Piratically Incorrect (2008) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
the 'Blades'. Stays true to their practice of adding a ren/piratefest sound with modern overtones. Included are pirate versions of Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya and Spancill Hill.
  Full Frontal Piracy (2007) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Traditional layered sea songs with a modern flair. This CD features several of groups crowd pleasers, including a pirate version of the Irish drinking song "Whiskey in the Jar".
My Lady's Cutlass (Details)
  We Be Pirates (2005) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Modern folk, original female-pirate songs, a'capella, celtic instrumental, bagpipes, didgeridoo and more.
Pirate Comedy Show (Details)
  Pirate Comedy Show Album (2004) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Renaissance Festival humor with piratey songs and piratey dialog.
Pirate Jenny (Details)
  Once Upon a Wave (1999) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Seventeen original rock & roll sea chanties by Portland's best pirate rock band.
  Never-Sea Land (1996) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
With its layers of acoustic guitars, tender love songs and multi-track vocals, Never-Sea Land might just be the Pet Sounds of pirate rock music.
Pirates for Sail (Details)
  Band on the Rum (2009) Buy now! No sample Reviews
Avast! This is the album you've been waiting for! Pirates For Sail proudly presents its long-awaited second CD, "Band on the Rum," bringing you more great sea shanties and drinking songs to while away those long hours plundering galleons and fleeing from the Admiralty.
  A Shot Across The Bow (2008) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
From the bars of Fells Point, Maryland all the way to the Spanish Main, Pirates For Sail brings you sea shanties, drinking songs and more, whether originals or new twists on old classics.
Pirates For The Preservation Of New Orleans Music (Details)
  Lafitte's Return Vol. 4 (2008) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Music for the pirate in all of us. This cross-genre album has pirate music in a number of styles from traditional, techno, metal and more.
  Lafitte's Return Vol. 3 (2008) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Music for the pirate in all of us. This cross-genre album has pirate music in a number of styles from traditional, techno, metal and more.
  Lafitte's Return Vol. 2 (2008) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Music for the pirate in all of us. This cross-genre album has pirate music in a number of styles from traditional, ska, metal and more.
  Lafitte's Return Vol. 1 (2008) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Music for the pirate in all of us. This cross-genre album has pirate music in a number of styles from traditional, ska, metal and more.
Pirates of New Providence (Details)
  Down Among the Dead Men (2007) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Famous pirate songs, features Dead Man's Chest
Pirates of Rogues Cove (Details)
  Setting Sail (2008) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Tratitional and not so traditional sea shanties, as sung by a bunch of pirates.
Pyrates Royale, The (Details)
  Tales of the Brigantine (2004) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
A mix of traditional and modern acoustic maritime/pirate music that rocks without being electric, sings without a string section and humors without a laugh track.
Rant and Roar (Details)
  Bucket of Guts (2006) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Sea shanties and pirate music
Rum Fellows (Details)
  Okie Maritime Music (2009) Buy now! No sample Reviews
Okie Maritime Music: For the Landlocked Pirate is a collection of sea shanties, drinking songs, folk songs, and Irish tunes, all Okie style.
RustMonster (Details)
  Last Voyage of the Black Betty (2006) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
RustMonster’s debut album, Last Voyage of the Black Betty, is a story told in three acts. Follow the intrepid and cold-blooded Captain Stark as he subjugates crew from a squalid, West London tavern and makes way to ravage the seven seas. Find out what happens when Captain Stark is finally engaged by his old nemesis, Captain Henry Ramos, who captains his majestic ship, the Cassandra.
Salt Sea Pirates (Details)
  Grog n'Gunpowder (2005) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Music from the Great Age Of Sail and a few other tunes about pirates 'n drinkin,' which are guaranteed to make you go fer that bottle 'o rum.
Salty Dick (Details)
  Salty Dick's Uncensored Sailor Songs (2004) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
A collection of songs as sailors sung them: bawdy, raw and uncensored, accompanied by concertina, guitar, banjo, accordion and ukulele. WARNING: Explicit lyrics
Sforzando (Details)
  Hideous Sea Creatures (2002) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Punk/pirate/folk music from Australia; a six-piece pirate orchestra which blends ferocious punk, Western European folk melodies and classic sea shanties to create a soundscape for the ocean.
Shantyman, The (Details)
  Ramblin' Sailor (2004) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Sailing away songs, coming home songs, songs about adventure and about never sailing again, working songs, drinking songs, songs about dead guys: there's all this and more rendered in the distinctive voice of Joshua Jenkins, the Shantyman.
  Pirate's Life (2002) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Sea songs and sea shanties done with a Renaissance festival / pirate flavor.
Skip Blancett & Mancel Bolton (Details)
  Ruby Island (2002) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
A delightful, fun adventure of sailing to Ruby Island, home of pirates. This interactive story filled with surprise, humor, and catchy songs is told by Skip Blancett, a real Navy Captain, and Mancel Bolton, a real professional song writer and singer.
Skip Henderson (Details)
  The Poet & Pirate Overtures (2007) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
With some exceptions, these are songs of conflict and plunder on the water — Pirates were generally not “nice guys” and they had an unfortunate disposition toward gratuitous violence.
  Billy Bones and Other Ditties (1999) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Enjoy authentic and traditional pirate songs, sailing songs, sea shanties and nautical ballads by one of the nation's premier singing sailors.
Stepping Into Books (Details)
  J. Roger's School for Pirates (2003) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
This pirate chorus and ship's orchestra deliver a curriculum of 15 fun musical "lectures" that address a variety of piratical subjects such as pirate dogs, real life pirate queens and a unique recipe for pirate grub.
The Dreadnoughts (Details)
  Legends Never Die (2007) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Vancouver's newest group of drunken misfits: The Dreadnoughts. One part roaring sea shanty, one part haunting Irish melody, and a solid chaser of gut-crunching street punk. The Dreadnoughts take punk, celtic, and shanty-music seriously. They stay true to the ancient ballads and bawlers that once drove sailors around the world, and they smash out modern street-punk with a fury and intensity that is almost unmatched in their home city. "Legends Never Die" is their first album.
The Pirates Charles (Details)
  The Return of David Gale (2008) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Dramatic new burst of steez, the finest pirate rock, war ballads, a-capellas and drinking songs featuring David Gale on bass and Harpoon Austin on a full drum kit.
  2nd Edition Subsection B New Steez the Second, Volume Two (2008) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
A reworking of the group's original New Steez EP, featuring David Gale on bass and Harpoon Austin on a full drum kit.
  Live Scallywags (2007) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
A fury of sound, steez, and piracy- composed of musical genius, pulling life, love and inspiration from the sea, and the history of man's love for her.
There Be Pirates! (Details)
  Drink & the Devil (2008) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Music fit for a party - a boarding party. Pirate ditties, sea music, drinking songs - from traditional to original.
Toucan Pirates (Details)
  Buried Treasure / Toucan Pirates (2004) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
The Toucan Pirates be young sea-farin' lads of Seattle who play traditional tunes from Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales and the Shetland Isles using concertina, button accordion, bouzouki, tenor banjo, pennywhistle, and even a West Indian steel drum.
  Sea Changes / Toucan Pirates (2002) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Features a recording of the song "Yo Ho, Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life For Me)" from the Disneyland ride "Pirates of the Caribbean".
  Battle Songs / Toucan Pirates (1999) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Set sail with the Toucan Pirates! Their first collection of traditional Irish instrumental music with authentic pirate sound effects will take you along on a wild Toucan Pirate adventure!
Two of a Kind (Details)
  Going on an Adventure (1999) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Upbeat, fun songs for kids up to 7 years old, featuring adventures with animals, books, dinosaurs, pirates, firefighters, grandparents and more.
Various Artists (Details)
  Front Row Seat (2006) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
A very live unprocessed two-disk compilation of acoustic singer song-writers as recorded at the 3 Rivers Folklife Society concerts, including Pacific Northwest sea music artists.
  Great Pirate Music (2006) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Music inspired by the Pirates of the Caribbean movies
  Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys (2006) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
A compilation album with performances by Nick Cave, Sting, Bono, Lou Reed and many other leading recording artists.
Wages of Sin, The (Details)
  Custom of the Sea (2005) Buy now! Listen! Reviews
Punk-rock sea shanties and Appalachian death polka. WARNING: Adult content.

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