The Young Dubliners

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Foggy Dew 03:40 Tools
I'll Tell Me Ma 00:00 Tools
Follow Me Up To Carlow 04:01 Tools
The Rocky Road To Dublin 04:02 Tools
Bodhran 00:00 Tools
The Leaving of Liverpool 00:00 Tools
If I Should Fall from Grace with God 00:00 Tools
Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore 00:00 Tools
McAlpine's Fusiliers 00:00 Tools
Weila Waile 00:00 Tools
Waxies Dargle 00:00 Tools
Raglan Road 05:34 Tools
Ashley Falls 04:09 Tools
Auld Triangle 00:00 Tools
Pair of Brown Eyes 04:25 Tools
Rosie 00:00 Tools
Saints and Sinners 03:13 Tools
Fisherman's Blues 00:00 Tools
Rocky Road To Dublin 04:02 Tools
Saoirse 00:00 Tools
(I Don't Think I'll) Love Anymore 00:00 Tools
Caroline 00:00 Tools
Banshee 00:00 Tools
Real World 00:00 Tools
Howaya Girls 03:56 Tools
One And Only 00:00 Tools
In The End 00:00 Tools
Touch The Sky 00:00 Tools
Evermore 00:00 Tools
Don't You Worry 00:00 Tools
Buy You A lIfe 00:00 Tools
Come Back Home 00:00 Tools
What Do You Want From Me 00:00 Tools
Stop Me 00:00 Tools
Red 00:00 Tools
Neverending 00:00 Tools
Confusion 00:00 Tools
Fall From Grace With God 00:00 Tools
Brown Dog 00:00 Tools
Say It's So 00:00 Tools
This Time 00:00 Tools
BackSeatDriver 00:00 Tools
Chance 00:00 Tools
My Town 00:00 Tools
Apart 00:00 Tools
Ok 00:00 Tools
Salvation 00:00 Tools
Rising / Change The World 00:00 Tools
Please 00:00 Tools
Happy 00:00 Tools
Neverending (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Fade Away 00:00 Tools
Wash My Hands 00:00 Tools
Abhainn Mor 00:00 Tools
Red (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Come On 00:00 Tools
We The Mighty 00:00 Tools
Is That Me? 00:00 Tools
The Foggy Dew (2007 Version) 00:00 Tools
Jump in the Sea 00:00 Tools
Shame 00:00 Tools
Breathe 00:00 Tools
Name 00:00 Tools
Nothing's Gonna Change 00:00 Tools
Unreel 00:00 Tools
Follow Me Up To Carlow (2007 Version) 00:00 Tools
Seeds Of Sorrow 00:00 Tools
Ooh La La 00:00 Tools
Thunder 00:00 Tools
Scream 00:00 Tools
Knickers 00:00 Tools
Change The World 00:00 Tools
Low 00:00 Tools
Say Anything 00:00 Tools
Ill Tell Me Ma 00:00 Tools
Up In The Air 00:00 Tools
Shake Me Down 00:00 Tools
Mary 00:00 Tools
These Days 00:00 Tools
Fall 00:00 Tools
Fan 00:00 Tools
Rain 00:00 Tools
The Deep 00:00 Tools
One Touch 00:00 Tools
Whiskey in the Jar 00:00 Tools
Holy Ground 00:00 Tools
Only You & Me 00:00 Tools
Rocky Road To Dublin (OST Шерлок Холмс 2009 ) 00:00 Tools
Boondock Saints Theme 00:00 Tools
Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum 00:00 Tools
Last House on the Street 00:00 Tools
Enough Is Enough 00:00 Tools
The Raggle Taggle Gypsy 00:00 Tools
Black and White 00:00 Tools
The Rocky Road To Dublin (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Raggle Taggle Gypsy 00:00 Tools
A Nation Once Again 00:00 Tools
Blink 00:00 Tools
raggle taggle gipsy 00:00 Tools
Backseat Driver 00:00 Tools
Come and Join the British Army 00:00 Tools
Dicey Reilly 00:00 Tools
Red - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Neverending - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Farewell To Ireland 00:00 Tools
What Do You Want From Me? 00:00 Tools
Molly Malone 00:00 Tools
McAlpines Fusiljers 00:00 Tools
Mama 00:00 Tools
The Fields Of Athenry 00:00 Tools
Lord Of The Dance 00:00 Tools
Rocky Road To Dublin (OST Sherlok Holms 2009) 00:00 Tools
Black & White 00:00 Tools
Man Upstairs 00:00 Tools
Seven Drunken Nights 00:00 Tools
Unreal 00:00 Tools
Welia Waile 00:00 Tools
Fisherman’s Blues 00:00 Tools
We The Mighty (1) 00:00 Tools
Follow Me Up to Carlow (Live from Denmark) 00:00 Tools
Rising (Change the World) 00:00 Tools
Follow Me Up To Carlow [2007 version] 00:00 Tools
Bodhran Reel 00:00 Tools
Father's Son 00:00 Tools
Saoirse (Pronounced Searsha) 00:00 Tools
Bog down in the valley 00:00 Tools
Paddys Green Shamrock Shore 04:31 Tools
[Don't Think I'll] Love Anymore 00:00 Tools
Unreel (Live from Denmark) 00:00 Tools
Sam Hall 00:00 Tools
ABHAINN MÓR 00:00 Tools
Many young men of twenty 00:00 Tools
Ashley Falls (1994) 00:00 Tools
Rocky Road To Dublin ( The Dubliners cover) 00:00 Tools
I Don't Think I'll Love Anymore 00:00 Tools
Saints and Sinners (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Beer, Beer, Beer 00:00 Tools
Wash My Hands (live) 00:00 Tools
Rare Old Mountain Dew 00:00 Tools
What we gonna do with a drunken sailor 00:00 Tools
Kormac-Wash my hands 00:00 Tools
Caroline (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
This Time (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
The Rocky Road To Dublin - Album Version 00:00 Tools
Abhainn Mór 00:00 Tools
If I Should Fall from Grace Wit 00:00 Tools
Saoirse (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Waxie's Dargle 00:00 Tools
Fisherman's Blues (live) 00:00 Tools
Rocky Road To Dublin ( Sherlok Holms 2009 OST) 00:00 Tools
BackSeatDriver (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
In the End (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
I`ll Tell Me Ma (МОЯ ЛЮБИМАЯ ) 00:00 Tools
Buy you a Life (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Rocky Road To Dublin (Шерлок Холмс 2009 OST) 00:00 Tools
Chance (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Young dubliners - foggy dew 00:00 Tools
If I Should Fall from Grace with God (The Pogues cover) 00:00 Tools
I\'ll Tell Me Ma 00:00 Tools
Young Dubliners - The Raggle Taggle Gypsy 00:00 Tools
Finnegan's Wake 00:00 Tools
Drunken Sailor 00:00 Tools
The Young Dubliners - Caoline 00:00 Tools
Wash My Hands (live at KBCO) 00:00 Tools
My Town (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Caoline 00:00 Tools
The Young Dubliners - Sam Hall 00:00 Tools
Young dubliners - bodhran 02:13 Tools
McApline's Fusilers 00:00 Tools
[Don't Think I'll] Love Anymore (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Last House On The Block 00:00 Tools
realworld 00:00 Tools
Young Dubliners - Thunder 00:00 Tools
01 Follow Me Up To Carlow 00:00 Tools
The Rock Road To Dublin 00:00 Tools
Belle of Belfast City 00:00 Tools
Say Its So 00:00 Tools
Follow Me Up To Carrow 00:00 Tools
Blood of Cuchulainn 00:00 Tools
waxiesdargle 00:00 Tools
comebackhome 00:00 Tools
Young Dubliners - Molly Malone 00:00 Tools
The Town I loved so well 00:00 Tools
The Raggle Taggle 00:00 Tools
If I Should Fall form Grace with God 00:00 Tools
Rising-Change The World 00:00 Tools
The Blood of Cu Chulainn 00:00 Tools
The Young Dubliners - (I Don't Think I'll) Love Anymore 00:00 Tools
Paddy\'s Green Shamrock Shore 00:00 Tools
Howaya Girls (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
The Young Dubliners - Come and Join the British Army 00:00 Tools
touchthesky 00:00 Tools
fadeaway 00:00 Tools
The The Leaving of Liverpool 00:00 Tools
Poor Paddy On The Railway 00:00 Tools
Belle of Dublin city 00:00 Tools
The Young Dubliners - Knickers 00:00 Tools
Maids When You're Young Never Wed An Old Man 00:00 Tools
If I Should Fall From Grace Wi 00:00 Tools
Fishermans Blues 00:00 Tools
McAlpine\'s Fusiliers 00:00 Tools
Rocky Road to Dublin [Original] 00:00 Tools
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The Young Dubliners are a musical group, who have developed a reputation early on for high-energy gigs fueled by musicianship, pints o' bitter, and the thrill of a good Celtic-rock mash-up. Drawing on obvious influences (Waterboys, Pogues, U2), the group began as a musicians' "revolving door" in the early '90s, but finally hit its stride with a stable lineup to back founding singer-guitarist Keith Roberts a few years ago. A Dublin native and University College Dublin grad (politics/sociology), Roberts thought about pursuing journalism upon his late Reagan-era stateside arrival. He thought better of it after an internship at PBS, deciding he'd share his homeland history by making news, rather than reading it off a teleprompter. The quintet's still rolling after Roberts' vocal cord surgery, and touring behind last year's wry, sprightly tour de force, Real World. They are a true purveyor of Irish rock that's thrilling to hear, fun to watch, and certain to swing your shillelagh. Deep History: There is more to the story than what is written above. The Young Dubliners began in 1988 (maybe even 1987) as a duo, Keith Roberts and Paul O'Toole. Both played acoustic guitars and sang. The format was mostly Irish folksongs and Irish pop. Keith and Paul made an interesting contrast. Paul, an electrician by trade, was a multi-instrumentalist and true Dubliner, from the north side. Keith was a college-educated product of the pairing of two well-known Irish entertainers. Not truly from Dublin, Keith was raised in the posh suburb of Dun Laoghaire (sounds like Dun Leary to an American ear). One of Keith's musical motivations may have been having known members of the band Hothouse Flowers during his days in college. Paul's musical motivations might have been more simple; he simply liked playing and singing a good tune in between sips of Guinness Stout. Their homebase in the earliest of the early days was the Irish Rover on Santa Monica Boulevard in Santa Monica. They were an underground phenomenon back in those days, and they often played to a packed, but very small, house. 'The Rover', as it was called, would become a solid mass of humanity who were all smoking and drinking until the cigarette smoke burned your eyes and the heat and humidity of a hundred sweaty bodies turned the tiny pub into a sauna filled with undulating human flesh. They shared the Rover back then with another Irish band called "The Lads", one would play Friday night and the other would take Saturday night. Paddy's Day 1988 had The Lads go on first, followed by the Young Dubliners. This was powerful testimony to the popularity of the 'band' back then, that an acoustic act could out-muscle an electric band for headliner of an Irish bar on Paddy's Day. Back in those days they had a soundman, Rob McCulley, who would record all the shows. There are dozens and dozens of these tapes in existence. They self-produced their first cassette, "Young Dubliners Live", based on those early recordings. The tape included their very first original song, "Keaton's Bar", written by Paul O'Toole. The act developed. They added instruments, and gave the yoke to ones they didn't care for (e.g. bongo player). "John" Brendan Holmes, another Dubliner, joined them on bass, a role that he has held ever since (while a myriad of other musicians came and went). "Dirty Old Town' developed into their closing number, and it was during this period that "Fisherman's Blues" and "Rocky Road to Dublin" became essential numbers. In answer to the mosh pit, the front of the stage would feature what would (much later) be called the 'jig pit', and the traditional instrumental "Coolies" was the song that would get it in full gear. During this period they opened for Christy Moore (who insisted on meeting 'the boys' before going on) and The Furey Brothers (who counseled them to play more originals--fine advice from a band that had maybe one or two original songs to their name). They released another self-produced cassette, this time a studio release called "Home", featuring the eponymous (and their second) original song. They began to branch out of the Rover and play other gigs. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.