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15 Years On

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name15 Years On
typestudio
artistThe Dubliners
cover15 Years On.jpg
released1977
genreIrish folk
labelChyme Records
producerEarl Gill
prev_titleLive at Montreux
prev_year1977
next_titleTogether Again
next_year1979

15 Years On is the eleventh studio album by the Irish folk band The Dubliners. This album was created to celebrate the band's 15th anniversary from the day they started music together. The album was released on the Chyme label in 1977. The album features 24 tracks on two records (with nine of which were previously unreleased): A: side-one: Track two: Ploughboy Lads, track four: Bunclody. A: side-two: track three: Reels: Last Night's Fun & The Congress Reel, track four: The Banks of the Sweet Primroses. B: side-one: track two: Salamanca, track three: Spancil Hill. B: side-two: track two: O'Carolan's Devotion, track four: Down by the Glenside, track six: Molly Malone.

In spite of having only nine previously unreleased tracks, it is still regarded as an original album.

Special Track Features

The group's line-up consisted of Barney McKenna, Luke Kelly, John Sheahan and Jim McCann. Ronnie Drew feature on a number of the previously available tracks. Ciarán Bourke is not to hear on this double album.

Track listing

Disc One

Side one:

  1. "The Wild Rover"
  2. "Ploughboy Lads"
  3. "The Three Sea Captains"
  4. "Bunclody"
  5. "Seven Drunken Nights"
  6. "The Belfast Hornpipe/Tim Maloney"

Side two:

  1. "Black Velvet Band"
  2. "Carrickfergus"
  3. "Reels: Last Night's Fun & The Congress Reel"
  4. "The Banks of the Sweet Primroses"
  5. "Weile Waile"
  6. "Four Green Fields"

Disc Two

Side one:

  1. "The Town I Loved So Well"
  2. "Salamanca"
  3. "Spancil Hill"
  4. "McAlpine's Fusiliers"
  5. "Boulavogue"
  6. "The Auld Triangle"

Side two:

  1. "Spanish Lady"
  2. "O'Carolan's Devotion"
  3. "Thirty Foot Trailer"
  4. "Down by the Glenside"
  5. "Fiddlers Green"
  6. "Molly Malone"

Mislabelled Instrumental Tracks

The tune labelled "Salamanca" is a medley of "The Snow on the Hills" (O'Neill 569) and "The Salamanca Reel" (O'Neill 603), from O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland.

Tour

The 15 Years On Tour was a tour of Europe and Australia throughout 1977 in support of the album.

References

References

  1. Birchall, Clifford. (September 29, 1977). "Tracking the changes of fifteen years". [[The Ormskirk Advertiser]].
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