The Dubliners play Dirty Old Town
This is a great vocal performance from the late, great Luke Kelly. It’s utterly fearless. Although the Pogues recorded a brilliant version of this on Rum Sodomy and the Lash, one would be hard pressed to find a better sung version of Ewan MacColl’s classic song than this.
On an unrelated note, Dubliner Barney McKenna is a brilliant banjo player, but man oh man is that thing loud.
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Fan-freakin’-tastic! Banjo sounds good to me, but as a “former” banjo player I can’t get enough. They say the banjo’s supposed to make you happy, but it’s a lie.
Comment by Edward Burch — 9/19/2007 @ 1:43 pm