''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

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in 1995, after recording this album due to its high chart success in the Irish Charts. It has more of a

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feel than his previous solo albums and features

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on backing vocals. It was produced by Keith Donald, formerly of

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and contains songs by

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and U2's

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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" (

) - 3:44 # "Drinkin' in the Day" (

, Simon Carmody) - 4:46 # "Viva La Quinte Brigada" (

) - 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 Máirtín O'Connor is an Irish button accordionist from Galway, Ireland, who began playing at the age of nine, and whose career has seen him as a member of many traditional music groups that include Skylark, Midnight Well, De Dannan, and ...

- button key accordion *Declan Masterson - Uilleann bagpipes, bouzouki, low whistle *Myles Drennan - drums, keyboards *Noel Eccles - percussion *Mick Nolan - trumpet, piccolo trumpet, flugelhorn *

, Jenny Newman, Karen Hamill - backing vocals *Luke Slott - boy soprano 1995 albums Ronnie Drew albums Columbia Records albums {{1990s-rock-album-stub