https://youtu.be/kz_dHcduUTU
Magic. RIP Lukey.
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Jaysus I do a lovely version of that and Hand me down the Catechism
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Someone throw up Scorn Not His Simplicity there
Come My Little Son
Twee if sung by anyone else, majestic when sung by Luke
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One of his best- poignant
Luke was ok but the voice would grate on you after a while. He was no Damien Dempsey.
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Only heard of DD on who do you think you are-at least that’s where I think I first heard him- savage voice
Morrissey is a huge fan of Damien Dempsey.
I have just discovered.
Thought he was dead n buried,I’m away behind the times,must go back on the Beamish
The one day of the year when everyone suddenly becomes a folk music expert.
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Ah I’m not too bad, I do a decent schooldays over as well, you get the odd quare look when you sing ‘schooldays over, come on then Dai’
I cannot understand the popularity of “Damo”…
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I don’t know much about him. Then again nothing has really drawn me towards him musically.
We’ve no more water or light or bread.
So we live on songs and hope instead.
You just mentioned yourself in the same thread as Luke Kelly.
What a misery Ireland was back then.