''Dirty Rotten Shame'' is an album by
Ronnie Drew
Joseph Ronald Drew (16 September 1934 – 16 August 2008) was an Irish people, Irish singer, folk musician and actor who achieved international fame during a fifty-year career recording with The Dubliners.
He is most recognised for his lead voc ...
, released in 1995.
Drew left
The Dubliners
The Dubliners were an Folk music of Ireland, Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962 as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group, named after its founding member; they subsequently renamed themselves The Dubliners. The line-up saw many changes in personn ...
in 1995, after recording this album due to its high chart success in the
Irish Charts. It has more of a
rock music
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feel than his previous solo albums and features
Aslan
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on backing vocals.
It was produced by
Keith Donald, formerly of
Moving Hearts
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and contains songs by
Elvis Costello
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,
Christy Moore
Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore (born 7 May 1945) is an Irish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. In addition to his significant success as an individual, he is one of the founding members of Planxty and Moving Hearts. His first album, ...
and
U2's
Bono
Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), known by his stage name Bono (), is an Irish singer-songwriter, activist, and philanthropist. He is the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band U2.
Born and raised in Dublin, he attended M ...
.
Track listing
# "Gardiner Street Blues" (Donal McDonald) - 5:16
# "Eurolations" (Donal McDonald) - 3:56
# "Do You Want My Job" (
Ry Cooder
Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder (born March 15, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer, and writer. He is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known for his slide guitar work, his interest in traditional music, an ...
) - 5:43
# "The Dunes" (
Shane MacGowan
Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan (born 25 December 1957) is an Irish singer, songwriter, and musician. He is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of Celtic punk band the Pogues. He was also a member of the Nipple Erectors and Shane MacGo ...
)
# "One Last Cold Kiss" (
Felix Pappalardi
Felix A. Pappalardi Jr. (December 30, 1939 – April 17, 1983) was an American music producer, songwriter, vocalist, and bassist. He is best known as the bassist and co-lead vocalist of the band Mountain, whose song "Mississippi Queen" peaked at ...
,
Gail Collins
Gail Collins (born November 25, 1945) is an American journalist, op-ed columnist and author, most recognized for her work with ''The New York Times''. ) - 3:18
# "Dirty Rotten Shame" (
Elvis Costello
Declan Patrick MacManus Order of the British Empire, OBE (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. He has won multiple awards in his career, including a Grammy Award in ...
) - 3:44
# "Drinkin' in the Day" (
Bono
Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), known by his stage name Bono (), is an Irish singer-songwriter, activist, and philanthropist. He is the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band U2.
Born and raised in Dublin, he attended M ...
, Simon Carmody) - 4:46
# "Viva La Quinte Brigada" (
Christy Moore
Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore (born 7 May 1945) is an Irish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. In addition to his significant success as an individual, he is one of the founding members of Planxty and Moving Hearts. His first album, ...
) - 4:33
# "Happy As a Baby" (Mick Hanly) - 3:52
# "Far Off Fields" (
Keith Donald) - 2:45
# "True Ron Ron" (Keith Donald) - 2:44
# "
Brothers in Arms" (
Mark Knopfler
Mark Freuder Knopfler (born 12 August 1949) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Born in Scotland and raised in England, he was the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the rock band Dire Straits. He pursued a s ...
) - 4:40
Personnel
*Ronnie Drew - guitar, vocals
*Anthony Drennan - acoustic and electric guitar, Spanish guitar
*Eoghan O'Neill - bass, 6-string bass, acoustic guitar
*
Keith Donald - saxophone, bass clarinet, soprano recorder
*
Máirtín O'Connor
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- button key accordion
*Declan Masterson - Uilleann bagpipes, bouzouki, low whistle
*Myles Drennan - drums, keyboards
*Noel Eccles - percussion
*Mick Nolan - trumpet, piccolo trumpet, flugelhorn
*
Aslan
Aslan () is a major character in C. S. Lewis's ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' series. Unlike any other character, he appears in all seven chronicles of the series. Aslan is depicted as a talking lion, and is described as the King of Beasts, the ...
, Jenny Newman, Karen Hamill - backing vocals
*Luke Slott - boy soprano
1995 albums
Ronnie Drew albums
Columbia Records albums
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