It sounds like Kenny Chesney has more warm-weather radio gold on his hands, thanks to the catchy 'Pirate Flag' lyrics. Throughout his illustrious career, the star has been responsible for some serious ...

Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Marc Almond, Marianne Faithfull, Shane MacGowan and others appear on a new two-disc compilation of pirate ballads and sea songs called Son of Rogues Gallery. Here, Terry Gross ...

Poetry, Robert Frost wrote, is what gets lost in translation. Or not, as the case may be. Witness the work of Al Grand, the man behind the Yiddish version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of ...