Showing posts with label Ronnie Drew. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ronnie Drew. Show all posts

Monday, 21 September 2015

Dubliners - Seven Deadly Sins

Seven Deadly Sins [EMI Starline SRS 5101] was a 1972 reissue of a 1968 Dubliners album titled At It Again [Major Minor label]. It features what many would consider the classic Dubliners line up of Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, John Sheahan, Barney McKenna and Ciarán Bourke. Unusual for a Dubliners album there are a selection of Scottish Traditional and Folk songs, along with several Irish standards and an original satirical song "The Irish Navy" with lyrics co-written by Ronnie Drew and Luke Kelly.


Seven Deadly Sins (McLean)
Net Hauling Song (Ewan MacColl)
Nancy Whiskey (Traditional)
Many Young Men of Twenty" (Keane)
Instrumental medley: Paddy's Gone to France/Skylark (Traditional)
Molly Bawn (Traditional)
The Dundee Weaver (Traditional)
The Irish Navy (Drew-Kelly)
Tibby Dunbar (Robert Burns and Jim McLean)
The Inniskillen Dragoons" (Traditional)
Instrumental medley The Piper's Chair/Bill Hart's Jig/The Night of St. Patrick (Traditional)
I Wish I Were Back in Liverpool (Kelly-Rosselson)
Darby O'Leary
Go to Sea No More

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Tuesday, 23 June 2015

Dubliners - In Concert 1965

By the time The Dubliners had recorded their second album live at the Cecil Sharp House in December 1964, they had become a quintet. Luke Kelly had temporarily left the group and Bobby Lynch and John Sheahan had joined. This was to be Lynch's only recording with The Dubliners, as he left the group when Kelly returned. Sheahan has been with the group ever since and in latter years has become their manager.

Group
Barney McKenna - banjo, mandolin
John Sheahan - fiddle, mandolin, flagolet
Ciarán Bourke - flagolet, harmonica
Bobby Lynch - guitar
Ronnie Drew - guitar

1 Roddy McCorley
2 The Twang Man
3 Reels: The Sligo Maid/Colonel Rodney: Sligo Maid/Colonel Rodney (Medley)
4 The Woman From Wexford
5 The Patriot Game
6 Roisin Dubh 
7 Air Fa La La Lo
8 Peggy Lettermore
9 Easy and Slow
10 My Love is in America
11 The Kerry Recruit (alternate take)
12 The Old Orange Flute
13 Reels: The Donegal Reel/The Longford Collector: The Donegal Reel/The Longford Collector (Medley)
14 Leaving of Liverpool
15 Peggy Lettermore
16 The Ragman's Ball
17 Reels: The Sligo/Colonel Rodney: Sligo Maid / Colonel Rodney (Medley)
18 Home, Boys, Home
19 King of the Fairies
20 The Mason's Apron
21 Kitty Come Down from Limerick
22 The Cuilin
23 The Greenland Whale Fisheries 

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Monday, 27 April 2015

Dubliners - Revolution

Released in 1970 Revolution was the title of the tenth album by The Dubliners. It was their second to be produced by Phil Coulter. This was a landmark in their career. Their sound had developed and Coulter, as well as playing piano on the record, had brought in other instrumentalists as well. The album featured "Scorn Not His Simplicity", a song that Coulter had composed about his own son, who had Down's syndrome, as well as a poem penned by Luke Kelly entitled "For What Died The Sons Of Róisín?".

Alabama '58
The Captains and the Kings
School Days Over
Sé Fáth Mo Bhuartha
Scorn Not His Simplicity
For What Died the Sons of Róisín?
Joe Hill
Ojos Negros
The Button Pusher
The Bonny Boy
The Battle of the Somme/Freedom Come-All-Ye
Biddy Mulligan
The Peat Bog Soldiers

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