Label: Paradigm [Ryko]
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 611948004229
EAN: 0611948004229
ASIN: B00000DGZJ
Release Date: 1998-11-03
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Artist: The Saw Doctors
Label: Paradigm [Ryko] Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 611948004229 EAN: 0611948004229 ASIN: B00000DGZJ Release Date: 1998-11-03 |
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As feel-good friendly as a vintage Tom Petty anthem. As singsong jangly as an old Irish Rovers standard. And every bit as backwoods basic as some Carter Family lament from the '30s. Nope. There's not much fault to be found with the pint-swilling, rafter-raising folk-rock of Celtic crooners the Saw Doctors. This is the ultimate party band, whose "N17" is--in addition to being one of the biggest-selling singles in Irish history--best experienced live, with every voice in the house jumping in on the call-and-response chorus. Revolving around the hearth-fire vocals of guitarist Davy Carton, SD discs may not quite capture that frantic energy, but they're typically more of the "N17" same. Sun Street is no exception. It's a warm, personable effort, with trademark pub pleasers ("Tommy K," "Catriona Tells Lies," and the goofy "D'ya Wanna Hear My Guitar?") complementing plush, gentle ballads ("Galway and Mayo," "Heading for the Sunshine," a nursery-rhyme-ish "Away with the Fairies"). Lift a Guinness to the lads. The world needs more true-blue bands like the Saw Doctors. --Tom LanhamAlbum Description
1998 & first album in two years by the lively British folkrock outfit. 15 tracks. A Shamtown Records release.Customer Reviews:
Rollicking music....now, where's my Guinness?.......2000-12-21
Another "Saw Doctors" Triumph.......2000-04-02
Unmatchable FUN!.......1999-05-03
I saw the Docs in NYC on St. Pat's day and ended up staying another day SOLELY so I could see them again the next night. It was at those shows that I first heard many of the songs on Sun Street and I was ecstatic when the album finally came out.
This band tore the house down!!! I worked at a Cabaret in college and NEVER saw anything like the craic to be had at a Saw Doctors concert. Imagine a house full of twentysomethings, all hoisting their Harps, whipped into a frenzy by the high-energy tunes and familiar lyrics of the premier Irish folk rock band in the land.
The Saw Doctors take you back to a time when playing music was fun - not a business. The sense you get when you see them is that they took an Irish tradition, playing music, and turned it up a notch, adding electric guitars to the flute and accordion, and making it (more) fun in the process. They don't take themselves, or their music, too seriously, and that's part of what makes it so grand.
If you're curious, check them out. Look them up on the web and go to their next concert. (They play the Fleadh's in the States, but they're better indoors.) But be prepared. I GUARANTEE you'll have the time of your life.
Sounds just like the Pogues quit drinking........1999-01-04
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