Finnegan Wakes

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Finnegan Wakes
Live album by The Dubliners
Released 1966
Genre Irish folk
Label Transatlantic
Professional reviews
The Dubliners chronology
In Concert Finnegan Wakes A Drop of the Hard Stuff

Finnegan Wakes is the title of a live album by The Dubliners. Recorded live at the Gate Theatre on 26th and 27th 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/guitar), Barney McKenna (tenor banjo)/mandolin), Luke Kelly (vocals/banjo), Ciaran Bourke (vocals/guitar/tin whistle/harmonica) and John Sheahan (fiddle/tin whistle/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 8th March, 1966.

[edit] Track listing

Side One:

  1. "Finnegan's Wake"
  2. "Sunshine Hornpipe/The Mountain Road"
  3. "Monto"
  4. "The Dublin Fusiliers"
  5. "Chief O'Neill's Favourite"
  6. "The Sea Around Us"

Side Two:

  1. "McAlpine's Fusiliers"
  2. "Hot Asphalt"
  3. "The Glendalough Saint"
  4. "Within a Mile from Dublin"
  5. "Will You Come to the Bower"
  6. "Nelson's Farewell"