The Best of the Dubliners
1983 — SPOT SPR 8504 LP
(Pickwick)

Credits

Ronnie Drew: Vocals and Guitar
Luke Kelly: Vocals and Banjo
Barney McKenna: Banjo and Mandolin
Ciarán Bourke: Vocals and Tin Whistle
John Sheahan: Fiddle, Tin Whistle and Mandolin
Bobby Lynch: Vocals and Guitar

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.

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• Original releases
  • This is a compilation of all previously released Transatlantic tracks — as follows:
    1. tracks from The Dubliners (with Luke Kelly): 1964 - Transatlantic TRA 116 LP
    2. tracks from In Concert: 1965 - Transatlantic TRA 124 LP
    3. tracks from Mainly Barney: 1966 - Transatlantic TRA EP 136 EP
    4. tracks from Finnegan Wakes: 1966 - Transatlantic TRA 139 LP
    5. tracks from Surrounded By Water & Off To Dublin In The Green: 1966 - Transatlantic TRA SP 8
    6. tracks from Nelson's Farewell & The Foggy Dew: 1966 - Transatlantic TRA SP 9

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