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The Dubliners

From:/1969

By:

Cambridge Folk Festival, England

1969

They've come back!
Back to Cambridge after 3 years, in a sense this is the Dubliners return to the "folk scene" after a period of success in the pop-line-up. There can be no mistake however, the Dubliners can never be accused of going "pop" what they have achieved is to sing and play their music with such skill and enthusiasm that general audiences have accepted them and made them pop heroes. That can't be bad for either them, or folk music. When the Dubliners' first LP was released, a reviewer in SING OUT! complained that they sounded just like the Clancy Brothers and he couldn't see the point. This ranks as the misleading statement of the century, we hope his ears have burned off. A group which unites three stronly individual voices with two, virtually unrivalled instrumentalists is (at least) at an advantage over others. In fact the Dubliners are, of course unique a musical brew as strong subtle, and mature as Jameson Jon, and which travels well - to the U.S.A, the Antipodes and Germany as well as all over this island. They have had their ups and downs, but over the last three years the music business (headed by Major Minor) seems to have worked out now to give them appropriate reward. It hasn't found a way of changing them, for which we can be equally grateful.

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The Dubliners

From: Göteborg Tidende Dec.11th 1992

By: Per Hägred

4 av 5

30 Years A-Greying
(RTE/Musikservice)

Undrar hur många Guinness som har runnit genom dessa herrars strupar? Bör ha blivit en och annan pint vid det här laget. Nu firar de 30 år av konstant krökande och uppmuntrande spel och song.
The Dubliners är en institution vid det här laget. Inte bare i hemlandet Irland utan även här i Sverige. En konsert med The Dubliners är alltid en folkfest. De står för övrigt för folkligheten på den irländska scenen medan The Chieftains drar åt det akademiska hållet.
På nya dubbel-CD:n har The Dubliners spelat in några av publikumsfavoriterna genom åren, bland annat en fartig version av "I'll Tell Me Ma" som landsbrodern Van Morrison tidligare gjort i en bra version. Pogues med Shane MacGowan är med på ett spår och Hothouse Flowers gör en underbar "The Rose".
Här finns de smäktande balladerna på temat hjärtesorg och de hejdlösa dryckesvisorna. Och här finns förstås Ronnie Drew's djupa barytonstämma.
Nu siktar de mot 40-årsjubileet år 2002.