Sweeney's Men (album)

Sweeney's Men
Studio album by Sweeney's Men
Released 1968
Recorded Livingston Studios, Barnet
Genre Celtic
Label Transatlantic
Sweeney's Men chronology

Sweeney's Men
(1968)		 The Tracks of Sweeney
(1969)
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Sweeney's Men is an album by Sweeney's Men. It was re-released on CD in 1996, packaged together with their second album, The Tracks of Sweeney. The final banjo riff on "The House Carpenter" is identical to the riff on Steeleye Span's "The Lowlands of Holland", where Terry Woods is again the banjo-player.

Woods, obviously a fan of The Byrds, borrowed some of Roger McGuinn's delivery for "My Dearest Dear." Which is appropriate, since McGuinn based his 1968 track "Space Odyssey" on the melody of the standard "The Handsome Cabin Boy."

Track listing

  1. "Rattlin' Roarin' Willy" (Trad)
  2. "Sullivan's John" (Pecker Dunne)
  3. "Sally Brown" (Trad)
  4. "My Dearest Dear" (Terry Woods)
  5. "The Exile's Jig" (instr) (Trad)
  6. "The Handsome Cabin Boy" (Trad)
  7. "Dicey Riley" (Dominic Behan)
  8. "Tom Dooley" (Trad)
  9. "Willy O'Winsbury"" (Trad)
  10. "Dance To Your Daddy" (Trad)
  11. "The House Carpenter" (Trad)
  12. "Johnston" (unknown)
  13. "Reynard The Fox" (Trad)

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