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By Alexander Wallace There are times when YouTube’s recommended videos give you gold; one of those times has led me to write this article. I am an aficionado of various anglosphere traditional music, and one day the algorithm gave me a haunting piece of music: Roll Northumbria by the Dreadnoughts: It’s written in the style of a sea shanty, with a haunting sense of finality and some powerful vocals. One might guess that this song concerns a ship from the 18th or 19th centuries, but no: it’s an or