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The Dubliners - Anthology

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  • The Dubliners - Anthology
    • 1978 - Transatlantic MTRA 2010 LP (UK)
  • Side One
    1. The Rocky Road To Dublin
    2. Peggy Lettermore
    3. Will You Come To The Bower
    4. Reels
    5. Tramps And Hawkers
    6. Master McGrath
  • Side Two
    1. Woman From Wexford
    2. Nelson's Farewell
    3. The Mason's Apron
    4. Walking In The Dew
    5. The Nightingale
    6. Sea Shanty (Roddy McCorley)
  • Credits
    • Compilation by John Briley
    • Art Direction: Colin Dresner
    • Anthology Cover Design: Graphyk
    • © 1978 Logo Records
  • Track Sources
    • Tracks: 1, 5 & 11 are from The Dubliners (with Luke Kelly) (1964, UK)
    • Tracks: 2, 4 & 7 are from In Concert (1965, UK)
    • Track: 9 is from Mainly Barney (1966, UK)
    • Tracks: 3 & 8 are from Finnegan Wakes (1966, UK)
    • Tracks: 6 & 10 are from More Of The Dubliners (1966, UK)
    • Track: 12 is previously unreleased — titled "Sea Shanty" — it is in fact "Roddy McCorley".
      • This is not the version from In Concert, with Bob Lynch.
      • The track is probably from the same session as the Dubliners' first Transatlantic LP, as it includes Luke Kelly, but not John Sheahan.
      • Just to make it more confusing, this track was subsequently released on various CDs — under the title, "Sea Shanty" and "Roddy McCorley".
  • Notes
    • The original LP (incorrectly) states that it contains three "previously unissued" tracks.
      • "Master McGrath"; "Walking In The Dew" & "Sea Shanty"
    • The first 2 tracks are from the Transatlantic EP, More of the Dubliners.

Sleeve Notes

The Dubliners are, with total justification, legendary.

Even before their monster British hit "Seven Drunken Nights" they were well on the way and had a huge following in Ireland. They've since almost become the popular public face of Ireland with their incredible energy poured wholeheartedly into a boisterous, rollicking chorus.

That is, of course, one very agreeable aspect of the Dubliners. There's nothing wrong with a good boozey Irish chorus, and this group can supply it better than anybody else. Yet there's another side to the group too — it's too often overlooked that Barney McKenna is one of the greatest banjo players in the world, and that the group as a whole can handle ballads with a sensitivity that belies the bushy beards and the image of downing pints of Guinness between verses.

This album represents some of their early highlights. The Ronnie Drew Band had played informally around Dublin at the start of the Sixties and the Dubliners — Drew, McKenna, former dock worker Luke Kelly and Ciaron Bourke — first emerged nationally at the 1963 Edinburgh Festival. "Rocky Road To Dublin", backed by "Wild Rover" was in fact their first single, and the album that followed, "The Dubliners" also secured them success in the States as well as Britain.

The rest, as they say, is history.

COLIN IRWIN