Luke Kelly - The Definitive Collection
Luke Kelly - The Definitive Collection
Release Date: 19/11/2010
Luke Kelly - The Definitive Collection covers the length of Luke's illustrious recording career - 21 years (and coinciding with what would have been Luke's 70th birthday 17th Nov 2010) - a double CD collection of studio recordings from 1962 to Luke's untimely death in 1984 covering the original releases of the songs that became synonymous with Luke.
In addition the collection will include Luke's rare and brilliant recording of Ray Davies song "Thank You For The Days" which was originally a huge hit for The Kinks and also Kirsty MacColl in later years.
The album also features Luke classics including "Raglan Road", "Song For Ireland", "Scorn Not His Simplicity" and "The Night Visiting Song" and sleeve notes contributed by Michael D. Higgins speaking about Luke in the year following his passing. The collection is supported by Luke's family and his fellow band members in The Dubliners.
TRACKLIST
DISC ONE
1. Thank You for the Days
2. Farewell to Carlingford
3. Muirshin Durkin
4. Scorn Not His Simplicity
5. The Gartan Mother's Lullaby
6.Peggy Gordon
7. The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe
8. Kelly the Boy from Killane
9. The Travelling People
10. Go to Sea No More
11. The Net Hauling Song
12. The Sun Is Burning
13. Alabama '58
14. The Auld Triangle
15. For What Died the Sons of Róisín
16. Whiskey in the Jar
17. The Black Velvet Band
18. The Town I Loved So Well
19. Joe Hill
20. A Song for Ireland
DISC TWO
1. Maids When You're Young Never Wed an Old Man
2. The Rocky Road to Dublin
3. The Shoals of Herring
4. Paddy On the Railway
5. Raglan Road
6. Schooldays Over
7. The Dundee Weaver
8. The Thirty Foot Trailer
9. The Banks of the Sweet Primroses
10. I Know My Love
11. Dirty Old Town
12. I'm a Rover
13. Tramps and Hawkers
14. The Rising of the Moon
15. The Galway Races
16. The Peat Bog Soldiers
17. The Lifeboat Mona
18. The Springhill Mining Disaster
19. The Night Visiting Song
20. The Wild Rover