An Evening with Ronnie Drew

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An Evening with Ronnie Drew
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Released2004
Label Dinky Records
Ronnie Drew chronology
A Couple More Years
(2000)
An Evening with Ronnie Drew
(2004)
El Amor De Mi Vida
(2006)

An Evening with Ronnie Drew is an album by Ronnie Drew, released in 2004. Drew recorded this album with Mike Hanrahan while on tour in Europe in the autumn of 2004.

Track listing

  1. "Finnegan's Wake"
  2. "McAlpine's Fusiliers"
  3. "Waltzing Matilda"
  4. "Two Island Swans"
  5. "Firefighter"
  6. "The Auld Triangle"
  7. "Nora"
  8. "The Sick Note"
  9. "Someone Like You"
  10. "La Quinta Brigada"
  11. "We Had It All"
  12. "Dicey Reilly"
  13. "Dirty Old Town"
  14. "Parting Glass"

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