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Sleeve Notes
Take a quintet of bearded musical personalities. Add a couple of guitars, banjoes and a fiddle. Mix well with five Irish singing voices, no doubt smoothed, mellowed, nurtured and developed by innumerable bottles of Guinness and you have THE DUBLINERS. It was at the Edinburgh Festival of 1963 that The Dubliners first came together. This group of five Irish lads immediately took off for the high spots with their typically Irish, yet somehow distinctive, brand of Irish folk music. It is not only in their native Ireland that they have made their impact. Britain, America, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand jig, reel and foot-tap to their sounds. Whether a reel, a jig or a drinking song, the message is international on this compilation.
