Spirit of the Nation
Download links and information about Spirit of the Nation by The Wolfe Tones. This album was released in 1964 and it belongs to World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Celtic genres. It contains 15 tracks with total duration of 51:43 minutes.
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| Artist: | The Wolfe Tones |
| Release date: | 1964 |
| Genre: | World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Celtic |
| Tracks: | 15 |
| Duration: | 51:43 |
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Tracks
[Edit]| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | Dingle Bay | 3:41 |
| 2. | No Irish Need Apply | 3:37 |
| 3. | Down By the Glenside | 2:52 |
| 4. | Bold Fenian Men | 2:19 |
| 5. | Paddle Your Own Canoe | 3:31 |
| 6. | Padraic Pearse | 3:32 |
| 7. | The Lough Sheelin Eviction | 5:37 |
| 8. | Song of the Celts | 2:44 |
| 9. | Butterfly | 3:19 |
| 10. | Protestant Men | 3:46 |
| 11. | Only Our Rivers Run Free | 3:58 |
| 12. | Saint Patrick Was A Gentleman | 2:32 |
| 13. | Ireland Unfree | 3:02 |
| 14. | Carolan's Concerto | 2:29 |
| 15. | Streets of New York | 4:44 |
Details
[Edit]1964's Spirit of the Nation, in retrospect, is one of the oddest albums by the Wolfe Tones. Only the Irish quartet's second release, the album is in the spirited mold of the college folk scene that was so prevalent in the early '60s. Songs like "Protestant Men" and "Paddle Your Own Canoe" have the cheery singalong trio of the Kingston Trio, and it's not until one pays attention to the lyrics of songs like "Padraic Pearse" (a ballad about one of the Irish Republican martyrs of the early 20th century) that one notices the sharp, biting political commentary so prevalent all over this album. The dichotomy is a little odd at first, and then it seems subversively brilliant; one can imagine this album getting slipped onto the turntable during a drunken St. Paddy's Day fraternity bash at some Ivy League college in the '60s and, in the argot of the day, raising a few people's consciousness. The terribly dated sound of the album makes it much more of a relic than most of the Wolfe Tones' early albums, but Spirit of the Nation is at the very least an interesting curio.