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Finnegan Wakes

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Released
  
1966

Length
  
38:03

Release date
  
1966

Label
  
Castle Music

Recorded
  
26/27 April 1966

Artist
  
The Dubliners

Producer
  
Nathan Joseph

Genre
  
Folk music of Ireland

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Finnegan Wakes (1966)
  
A Drop of the Hard Stuff (1967)

The Dubliners albums
  
In Concert, A Drop of the Hard Stuff, More of the Hard Stuff, 15 Years On, Plain and Simple

Finnegan Wakes is a live album by The Dubliners. Recorded at the Gate Theatre on 26 and 27 April 1966 and produced by Nathan Joseph, this was The Dubliners' final recording for Transatlantic Records. But it was also their first to feature their first established line-up of Ronnie Drew (vocals and guitar), Barney McKenna (tenor banjo and mandolin), Luke Kelly (vocals and banjo), Ciarán Bourke (vocals, guitar, tin whistle and harmonica) and John Sheahan (fiddle, tin whistle and mandolin). The album featured "Nelson's Farewell", a satirical song about the bombing and destruction of Nelson's Pillar in O'Connell Street, Dublin on 8 March 1966.

Contents

Track listing

Side One:

  1. "Finnegan's Wake"
  2. "Hornpipes: The Sunshine Hornpipe & The Mountain Road"
  3. "Monto"
  4. "The Dublin Fusiliers"
  5. "Hornpipe: Chief O'Neill's Favourite"
  6. "The Sea Around Us" (Dominic Behan)

Side Two:

  1. "McAlpine's Fusiliers" (Dominic Behan)
  2. "Hot Asphalt"
  3. "The Glendalough Saint"
  4. "Reel: Within a Mile from Dublin"
  5. "Will You Come to the Bower"
  6. "Nelson's Farewell" ('Galway Joe' Dolan)

Songs

Finnegan's Wake3:13
Sunshine Hornpipe / Mountain Road3:29
Monto3:25

References

Finnegan Wakes Wikipedia
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