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Drinking That Wine

from Shower Chanteys by Chris Maden

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“Drinking That Wine” is a net-hauling chantey, used by menhaden fishermen off the mid-Atlantic North American coast. These fishermen were almost all African-American, and their chanteys generally draw from gospel and from other worksong traditions, including field songs, rail-building songs, and chain-gang songs. The net-hauling chanteys are unusual in that the work is not done while singing—the fishermen will pause between lines to actually haul up a section of net. The song gives a chance to reset their grip, spread the net out, and prepare for the next pull. During the pull, between sung lines, is “chatter”—sometimes encouragement, sometimes trash-talk.

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from Shower Chanteys, released October 1, 2018

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Chris Maden Raymond, New Hampshire

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