Best of the Dubliners

The Dubliners, now one of the most legendary bands in the world, started off in O'Donoghue's pub in Dublin in 1962 under the name of "the Ronnie Drew Folk Group". Then they were four, Ronnie Drew (vocals and guitar), Luke Kelly (vocals and 5-string banjo), Barney McKenna (tenor banjo, mandolin, melodeon and vocals) and Ciarán Bourke (vocals, guitar, tin whistle and harmonica). In 1963, they played at the Edinburgh festival where they met the head of Transatlantic Records, Nathan Joseph, for whom they started recording. In 1964, Luke Kelly left, and Bobby Lynch (vocals and guitar) and John Sheahan (fiddle, tin whistle, mandolin, concertina, guitar and vocals) were added. When Luke Kelly returned and Bobby Lynch left in 1965, we have what is considered as the original Dubliners, five individualists, five men whose talents were mixed together in a superb blend and just wanted to play and have a good craic.

The Dubliners like most Irish traditionsl/folk bands are best listened to with a Pint of Guiness and a Wee Bush or Powers (no water)

Track List:
01-Seven Drunken Nights
02-Whiskey In the Jar
03-The Galway Races
04-Black Velvet Band (Tooral-I-Addy)
05-I'm a Rover
06-A Pub With No Beer
07-Never Wed an Old Man
08-Whiskey On a Sunday (Seth Davey)
09-Peggy Gordon
10-Nancy Whiskey
11-All For Me Grog
12-Weila Waila
13-Tibby Dunbar
14-Seven Deadly Sins
15-I Wish I Were Back In Liverpool
16-Dundee Weaver
17-Many Young Men of Twenty
18-The Leaving of Liverpool (live)

Link to Tracks 1 to 4 this file contains the link to the next group of tracks



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