McCall Eagle - Song of the Seas

My style has been described as 'smooth and steady. Easy on the ears.' These are Ballads of love and life and they are set on the great Oceans. I love to tell the stories of historical events through song. I am primarily a guitar-playing storyteller with a passion for searching out those events that have shaped us. Original songs, songs of the British Isles and the music of a struggling young America pretty much sums it up. I am often backed by a fabulous violin and mandolin, with occasional simple percussion and haunting backup voices. This album is all about the Sea-going aspects of our successes and failures as we 'land creatures' have dared to venture onto and across the great unknown and forbidding Seas to new lands. I write about the 'true' and the 'almost true' and I freely sample the fabulous traditional song-lore of the seafaring past where we all share deep roots.

1) The Song of the Peter Iredale
2) The Mains'l and the Bell
3) Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair
4) The Valparaiso Suite
5) My Ireland
6) When I Was a Boy
7) Henry Martin
8) Lord Franklin (Lady Franklin's Lament)
9) The Bonnie Ship the Diamond
10) The Leavin' of Liverpool