Anyone really familiar with Irish folk songs?

[gnome]

I have a few "drinking songs" as they were originally labeled, and I'd love to identify the artist and album if I can. Obviously these have been done many times by many artists.

Though these are lively and distinct versions, after multiple comparisons with samples on MP3.com, amazon.com, and elsewhere, I am totally unable to identify the source.

If anyone thinks they'd be able to identify them for me, I'd love to send the files and see what can be determined.

The songs I am trying to label:

Beer, Beer, Beer
Whiskey In The Jar
Rattlin' Bog
Seven Drunken Nights

[ImaginalDisc]

I have a few "drinking songs" as they were originally labeled, and I'd love to identify the artist and album if I can. Obviously these have been done many times by many artists.

Though these are lively and distinct versions, after multiple comparisons with samples on MP3.com, amazon.com, and elsewhere, I am totally unable to identify the source.

If anyone thinks they'd be able to identify them for me, I'd love to send the files and see what can be determined.

The songs I am trying to label:

Beer, Beer, Beer
Whiskey In The Jar
Rattlin' Bog
Seven Drunken Nights

I can name at least half a dozen different artists or groups that perform those songs, that I have heard in person alone. They're standard fare at, forgive me, Faires. I could give it a shot if you're willing to host the files on the web, or transfer them.

[Ravenwood]

Same here, you have described some of the most common pub & faire songs around. One name that stands out in my memory as being pretty distinct is Marc Gunn & he has done all of the above (and puts on a heck of a performance)

[Cleon]

I could take a stab at it. I'd bet money that "Seven Drunken Nights" is the Dubliners; they're the ones who really popularized it.

[Morrigan]

The Well Below the Valley

Or should I say... The Well Below the Valley-oh (because making true rhymes is, like, hard and stuff ;))

[JoeTheJuggler]

Whiskey in the Jar is aka Gilgarry Mountain.

[Drewbot]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46EXY4oP1Do

Here is the Dubliners version of Whiskey in the jar

[gnome]

Samples of the songs I'm trying to label with artist/album:

Beer, Beer, Beer (http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?id=447315&da=y)

Rattlin' Bog (http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?id=447316&da=y)

Seven Drunken Nights (http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?id=447317&da=y)

Whiskey in the Jar (http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?id=447318&da=y)

[Diarmuid]

I think you could say that The Dubliners probably popularised all of them. In the samples you provided, I think the only one here sung by them is Beer, Beer, Beer. It`s difficult to listen where I am now, I`ll give another listen tomorrow at work.

[Tumblehome]

The Clancy Brothers (by themselves and with Tommy Makem) probably did all those songs, too. That might be them singing Whiskey in the Jar, but I couldn't say for sure.

[Diarmuid]

I think you could say that The Dubliners probably popularised all of them. In the samples you provided, I think the only one here sung by them is Beer, Beer, Beer. It`s difficult to listen where I am now, I`ll give another listen tomorrow at work.

ETA, my wrong, Beer, Beer, Beer here is The Clancy Brothers. Can't help you with the rest.

[KateHL]

I agree with Beer, Beer, Beer being The Clancy Brothers.

As for the others, you know, there are a lot of small-time Irish folk singers who publish their own CDs. I'm pretty sure that's at least what Seven Drunken Nights is.

If you like those two songs, try the Barstool Hooligan versions. They're more rock but it's fun. :)

[Timothy]

If you're a fan of Irish music, take a gander at Colcannon, a Boulder based band that started as a pub band and has now grown to major gig status, a couple CDs, and a DVD. I've known the lead singer since a few months after he moved to Colorado in the '80s.

www.colcannon.com

[dudalb]

I rather like Tom Lehrer's "A Irish Ballad" myself....

[gnome]

Ok so one down, three to go... wish I could edit posts to mark that one.

[KQun]

Beer, Beer, Beer - The Clancy Brothers

Whiskey In The Jar - The Irish Rovers ( The Dubliners also do a great version of this song)

Seven Drunken Nights - The Blarney Lads

Sorry but I don't know the other one

[gnome]

Thanks!

[Retrograde]

Whiskey in the Jar: if the lyrics are slurred to the point of utter incomprehensibility, it's The Pogues.

I once had a collection of Whiskey in the Jar covers - including Metallica and the Grateful Dead - but they all got lost in a system upgrade.

[Soapy Sam]

I saw Colcannon in a bar in Boulder - gosh, must be seventeen years ago. They were excellent. I bought one of their tapes at the time- "The Parting Glass"?