Live on Lansdowne, Boston MA

Occupation

  • Tim Brennan: accordion, bouzouki, guitar, piano, backing vocals
  • Ken Casey: bass, vocals
  • Jeff DaRosa: banjo, bouzouki, guitar, mandolin, piano, tin whistle
  • Matt Kelly: drums, backing vocals
  • James Lynch: guitar, backing vocals
  • Scruffy Wallace: Bagpipes, Tin Whistle
  • Al Barr: Voice

Live on Lansdowne, Boston MA is the second live album by the American folk punk band Dropkick Murphys. It was released on March 16, 2010 Born & Bred Records, the band's own label.

Formation

The recordings on the album were performed between the 12th and 17th March 2009. During this period, the band organized since 2001 a series of five to six concerts in their hometown of Boston on the occasion of the Irish national holiday, St. Patrick 's Day, which takes place on 17 March. A year later, on 16 March 2010, the album was released.

The track list was compared to the 2003's live album Live on St. Patrick 's Day (From Boston, MA) fundamentally changed, only the song Forever is in a slightly different form as Forever of 2009. The songs Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya, (F) Lannigan 's Ball, Captain Kelly 's Kitchen and Fields of Athenry are original traditional Irish folk songs, but were partially used previously on the band's albums.

Title list

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DVD

Reviews

By music critics, the album received mostly positive reviews:

On about.com the album gets a perfect score of five stars. Critics Ryan Cooper especially praises the energy of the bus and writes that it is a must for all fans of the band.

Mike Allen of Sputnik Music forgive the note 4.0 of 5 possible points. Like Cooper, he praises also the proffered energy, but notes that some of the older songs were missing, but it was peppered with songs from The Meanest of Times.

Like many other critics also appreciates James Christopher Monger of Allmusic the energy of Albumsund gives four out of five stars.

In -Your- Face.de award six out of ten possible points. The CD is to certify a positive mood and quality, the new songs provide variety in contrast to the first live album by the band. On the DVD, but the critics are missing the " exciting background stories ." He also complains that the songs possess no deeper background.

Whiskey - soda.de contrast, only assigns the school grade 3, in which the note is composed of two individual assessments. The note, the CD received 2 , while the DVD was only found in Note 4. CD to the critic that the mood was good herübergerbacht, the crowd noise were partly to very scaled down. The DVD will receive a worse rating because of the camera work.

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Contributing musicians

  • Tim Brennan: accordion, bouzouki, guitar, piano, backing vocals
  • Ken Casey: bass, vocals
  • Jeff DaRosa: banjo, bouzouki, guitar, mandolin, piano, tin whistle
  • Matt Kelly: drums, backing vocals
  • James Lynch: guitar, backing vocals
  • Scruffy Wallace: Bagpipes, Tin Whistle
  • Al Barr: Voice
  • Bunker Hill Pipe Band: bagpipes
  • Matthew Edwards: Bass
  • Halley Feaster: Cello
  • Madelaine Ripley: Violin
  • Rock Solid String Section: String ensemble
  • Catherine Wilson: Violin
Record label Genre Singing Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye The Fields of Athenry
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