features in: Album Chart of 1967 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1960s |
The boisterous beardies have now signed with Major Minor Records, and this is their first album on the new label. After three live LP’s, someone clearly thought it time to take the band into the studio – whoever he was he was a very wise man. These results are thoroughly wonderful – the depth of talent on display is clearly heard on this crisp production. There are 13 traditionals in the set, plus a cover of Ewan MacColl’s “The Travelling People”. One of the great things about The Dubliners is that they seem to take undisputed ownership over any traditional song which they care to handle. Such is the overwhelming strength of the individual characters within the ensemble. There’s a peculiar twist to their interpretations that appeal to your everyman – to the worker, to the man on the dole, to the winners and the losers, to the liars and the fighters. I won’t lie to you – I have bias for my favourites within the group. Ronnie’s low vocal rumble just affects me – he’s a rough and ready diamond with a twinkle in his eye and a great sense of mischief. His readings of “Seven Drunken Nights” and “The Old Alarm Clock” are works of indisputable legend. Having said that, it’s Luke Kelly who ultimately steals the show on the album’s highlight – his plaintive balladeering is simply sensational on the perfectly pitched “Black Velvet Band”. Here’s a health to The Dubliners. “To me whack-fa-the-do-fa the diddle-iddle-a…”
The Jukebox Rebel
21–Feb–2010
Tracklist |
A1 | [03:44] The Dubliners - Seven Drunken Nights [album version ’67] (Traditional) Folk |
A2 | [03:19] The Dubliners - The Galway Races (Traditional) Folk |
A3 | [01:57] The Dubliners - The Old Alarm Clock (Traditional) Folk |
A4 | [02:37] The Dubliners - Colonel Fraser And O’Rourkes Reel (Traditional) Folk |
A5 | [03:37] The Dubliners - The Rising Of The Moon (Traditional) Folk |
A6 | [02:29] The Dubliners - McCafferty (Traditional) Folk |
A7 | [04:46] The Dubliners - I’m A Rover (Traditional) Folk |
B1 | [03:22] The Dubliners - Weile Waile [album version ’67] (Traditional) Folk |
B2 | [03:51] The Dubliners - The Travelling People (Ewan MacColl) Folk |
B3 | [03:12] The Dubliners - Limerick Rake (Traditional) Folk |
B4 | [02:11] The Dubliners - Zoological Gardens [album version ’67] (Traditional) Folk |
B5 | [01:52] The Dubliners - The Fairmoyle Lasses And Sporting Paddy (Traditional) Folk |
B6 | [04:28] The Dubliners - Black Velvet Band (Traditional) Folk |
B7 | [02:50] The Dubliners - Poor Paddy On The Railway (Traditional) Folk |