The Dubliners
1964 - MGM E/SE 4262 LP
American release

Sleeve Notes

…different than the Transatlantic release

This album marks the American debut of a new Irish folk-singing group. The Dubliners. The group was formed for and made its first appearance at the Edinburgh International Festival of 1963.

The Dubliners are composed of four of Ireland's leading folk singers who are distinctive and successful artists each in his own right. Each has a style and a sound all his own. Luke Kelly, for instance, has been described as having a voice "that would take the froth off a Guinness at fifty yards." As you can hear. he does most of the solo and lead singing.

Barney McKenna is the outstanding instrumentalist with the group: he's the one with the fantastic banjo technique. Ciarán Bourke is a ballad singer of great sensivity and an unusually fine player of the flageolet. Ronnie Drew is the humorist with the rough-and-ready, whisky rasp in his voice He's been described as having a voice that sounds "like coke being crushed under a door."

After their Edinburgh debut, The Dubliners began to draw large crowds to the famous O'Donohue's Bar where they still give inspired impromptu performances.

As thieir fame began to spread through out Ireland, they were asked to make a tour of the British Isles. They have played a number of the large cities in England and Scotland, but one concert the boys point to as being most significant was their outstanding success at the staid Usher Hall. Edinburgh, citadel of classical music in Scotland.

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