Melodies like ‘The Wellerman’ and ‘(What Shall We Do with the) Drunken Sailor’ have been popping up in videos everywhere. And the trend all began with a postman named Nathan Evans, who started singing the folk songs in his bedroom in Scotland and posting them to TikTok, unaware his v...
most people have heard The Wellerman, a song that went viral on TikTok and has been the inspiration for a huge number of videos (and playlists) in recent weeks. Sea Shanties like the Wellerman have been hailed as an antidote to
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8.The Drunken Wellerman(4:33) Anthemic instrumental shanty. An improv with Phil Keaggy, based on the shanties, “The Drunken Sailor” and “The Wellerman.” 9.Favorable Winds(5:29) Anthemic sea journey. I thought I’d write a song to the wind, beseeching it to go in the right direc...
In this case, former postal worker Nathan Evans went viral singing his version of “Wellerman” sea shanty and in a matter of months, folks from all over TikTok joined in with their renditions. The 26-year-old Scottish musician received a music contract and his song reached No. 1 on the...
James Cullen, one of the creators behind the @ukdestinations account,toldThe New York Timesthat he was “quite blown back by how popular the videos became” and that the audience came from all over the globe. (No one behind the account got back to me while I was working on this story...
a remix for Nathan Evans’ “Wellerman,” which was originally a New Zealand folk song. So, 220 Kid teamed up with Billen Ted to make a dance version of the historical song, which rapidly went viral on TikTok, making it one of the top ten most popular songs in the U.K., among TikT...