A Rogue's Gallery of Songs for 12-String (1983)

About this title: To call Gordon Bok the voice of the Maine coast would be kind of trite, and it would probably embarrass him. But as someone who has actually lived the seafaring life he sings about in songs like "Old Fat Boat" and "Woodworker's Litany," he delivers such material with an unusual authority, and the tunes he writes evoke with sometimes startling clarity the stark beauty and forbidding ruggedness of that region. It would be inaccurate, however, to pigeonhole him as a regional singer-although his accent is always frankly down-east, the songs he sings in that accent are as likely to come from ... read more

Tracks:

1. McKeon's Coming [Bok]
2. I'm a Rambler, I'm a Rambler [Traditional]
3. Thumpy [Bok]
4. Duncan and Brady [Traditional]
5. Belamena [Traditional]
6. Marina/Bimbo de Colonello [Traditional]
7. On the Wallaby [Lawson]
8. Old Fat Boat [Bok/Traditional]
9. Ramble Away [Traditional]
10. A Most Unpleasant Way, Sir [Goulder]
11. Mist Covered Mountains/Bonnie Galway [Traditional]
12. Blackbird [Goodenough]
13. St. Thomas [Rollins]
14. Woodworker's Litany [Bok]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.