Shane Parish – “Haul Away Joe”

Shane Parish’s Liverpool, a collection of reimagined sea shanties, is out March 4th on Dear Life Records. Today he shares the video for single “Haul Away Joe.” Shane’s interpretations turn trad into transcendent.

I first heard this song on the album “Foc’sle Songs and Shanties”, which I learned about when I was reading Bob Dylan’s memoire “Chronicles Volume I”. This was around the time my career unexpectedly veered into folk music from free jazz, experimental, and prog, and John Zorn signed me to do a folk record. Dylan’s book references so much amazing music and I made a playlist on Spotify of every song he mentions. Its phenomenal and the only reason I can’t get rid of my Spotify account.  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2xXag7wXKn05WLnSE21K1U?si=9ecc300fe6b94e07My plan was to film this video in South Florida, where I grew up, over the xmas holidays, but Omicron made us change our plans and we stayed in Athens. My wife Courtney is a phenomenal dancer and I just love the way her spirit animates her body through dance. She is featured among the industrial imagery we filmed near my daughter’s dance school in Athens.

Pre-order Liverpool on Bandcamp.