The Dubliners: 50 Years – review

(IML)Billy Connolly once called the Dubliners "folk music's Rolling Stones", but the rousing wild men of the Irish traditional scene sadly never reached their 50th anniversary in the same lucrative style. The death of Barney McKenna earlier this year means there are now no surviving members of the original bearded four-piece that shook up Paddy O'Donoghue's Bar in Dublin back in 1962 with an approach that defined folk-punk long before punk was invented. There have been a string of Dubliners co...

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