Irish Drinking Songs—Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem Discography

		Track List: Whiskey In The Jar—Dubliners Beer, Beer, Beer Water Is Alright In Tay Mountain Dew Jug Of This The Pub With No Beer—Dubliners Drink It Up Men—Dubliners Maloney Wants A Drink—Dubliners All For Me Grog—Dubliners Galway Bay The Jug Of Punch Tim Finnegan's Wake * The Moonshiner * The Juice Of The Barley Whiskey, You're The Divil The Parting Glass Paddy Clancy Tom, Clancy Liam Clancy Tommy Makem and the Dubliners * previously unreleased
Irish Drinking Songs 1993 © Columbia/Legacy CK-52833 CD

Review of by Sean McGuinness

This CD features previously unreleased versions of “Tim Finnegans Wake” and “The Moonshiner” from the “In Person at Carnegie Hall” concert (both are good strong versions), as well as the previously unreleased introductions to “The Juice of the Barley” and “Jug of Punch” from the same concert. Its nice to have these. The rest of the CD contains previously released Clancy songs, as well as previously released songs by the Dubliners. The theme of the CD is a bit overwhelming and the release suffers from a lack of other kinds of material (love songs, ballads, rebel songs, etc), which offer a balance. Other than this, the CD only includes three Clancy songs not otherwise released on CD.

I rate this CD a C+.