If you’re on TikTok, the go-to app for Gen Z and millennials, you probably spent early January humming catchy nautical tunes while washing never-ending dishes or doomscrolling while you wait for pizza ...

It started on Dec. 27, when a Scottish singer named Nathan Evans posted a song on the video sharing app TikTok. Gazing sternly into the camera and beating his fist rhythmically on the back of a guitar ...

Nathan Evans was working as a mail carrier when he uploaded his cover of an old whaling tune. Now he has a folk-inspired album of his own songs, which he promises people can still “sing in the car.” ...

Songs like “A Pirate’s Life for Me” and “Dead Man’s Chest” are as prevalent in pirate lore as eye patches or treasure maps. These tunes, however, were written more than a hundred years after the ...

First, let’s deal diplomatically with the most sensitive question before us. Is it “shanty” or “chantey”? Well, it’s both. Either way, the musical form of a sea shanty or chantey is the same. It’s a ...