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The
Dubliners
| From:/1969 |
| By:
|
| Cambridge
Folk Festival, England |
|
1969 |
They've come back!
Back to Cambridge after 3 years, in a sense this is the Dubliners return to the "folk scene"
after a period of success in the pop-line-up. There can be no mistake however, the Dubliners
can never be accused of going "pop" what they have achieved is to sing and play their music
with such skill and enthusiasm that general audiences have accepted them and made them pop heroes.
That can't be bad for either them, or folk music. When the Dubliners' first LP was released, a reviewer in SING OUT!
complained that they sounded just like the Clancy Brothers and he couldn't see the point. This ranks
as the misleading statement of the century, we hope his ears have burned off. A group which unites
three stronly individual voices with two, virtually unrivalled instrumentalists is (at least) at an advantage over others.
In fact the Dubliners are, of course unique a musical brew as strong subtle, and mature as Jameson Jon, and which travels well -
to the U.S.A, the Antipodes and Germany as well as all over this island. They have had their ups and downs, but over the
last three years the music business (headed by Major Minor) seems to have worked out now to give them appropriate
reward. It hasn't found a way of changing them, for which we can be equally grateful.
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The
Dubliners
| From: G�teborg Tidende Dec.11th 1992 |
| By: Per H�gred
|
| 4 av 5
|
30 Years A-Greying
(RTE/Musikservice)
Undrar hur m�nga Guinness som har runnit genom dessa herrars strupar? B�r ha blivit en och annan
pint vid det h�r laget. Nu firar de 30 �r av konstant kr�kande och uppmuntrande spel och song.
The Dubliners �r en institution vid det h�r laget. Inte bare i hemlandet Irland utan �ven h�r i Sverige.
En konsert med The Dubliners �r alltid en folkfest. De st�r f�r �vrigt f�r folkligheten p� den irl�ndska scenen medan
The Chieftains drar �t det akademiska h�llet.
P� nya dubbel-CD:n har The Dubliners spelat in n�gra av publikumsfavoriterna genom �ren, bland annat en fartig version
av "I'll Tell Me Ma" som landsbrodern Van Morrison tidligare gjort i en bra version. Pogues med Shane MacGowan �r med p� ett
sp�r och Hothouse Flowers g�r en underbar "The Rose".
H�r finns de sm�ktande balladerna p� temat hj�rtesorg och de hejdl�sa dryckesvisorna. Och h�r finns f�rst�s Ronnie Drew's djupa
barytonst�mma.
Nu siktar de mot 40-�rsjubileet �r 2002.
Last update: August 17th 1999
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