Ride On (Christy Moore album)

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Ride On
Ride On cover
Studio album by Christy Moore
Released 1984
Recorded March, 1984
Genre Folk
Length 40:49
Label Roadrunner
Producer ?
Professional reviews
Christy Moore chronology
The Time Has Come
(1983)		 Ride On
(1984)		 Ordinary Man
(1985)

Ride On is an album by Irish folk singer Christy Moore, released in 1984, and is widely regarded as one of his best.[citation needed] It contains one of his most popular songs, the title track. A number of songs - powerful and evocative - celebrate and remember the actions of those involved in political struggles, or the effects of those struggles; such as "Vive la Quinte Brigada" which is concerned with the Irish contingent amongst the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War; or "El Salvador" dealing with the civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s and 1990s. Other songs deal with Irish history - "The City of Chicago", about emigration to America during the Irish famines of the late 1870s; "Back Home in Derry" about the transportation to Australia of convicts; and "Lisdoonvarna" celebrating a music festival that took place annually in that town until the early 1980s.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "The City of Chicago"
  2. "Ride On"
  3. "Vive la Quinte Brigada"
  4. "Songs of Wandering Aongus"
  5. "McIlhatton"
  6. "Lisdoonvarna"
  7. "Among The Wicklow Hills"
  8. "Sonny's Dream"
  9. "The Dying Soldier"
  10. "El Salvador"
  11. "Back Home In Derry"
  12. "The Least We Can Do"


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