Dirty old town

[fenderbender]

Hi all

The old ballad "Dirty old town" -written by Ewan MacColl and made kinda famous by the Dubliners
pumped up a bit

Chordpulse backer tweaked in Mixcraft
3 guitar tracks
3 vocal tracks
recorded on the BR600 and mastered in the BR80

thanks for listening gang

Tommy

[steelguitar]

One of my favorite song!

I like your version!!!
More joy in it than the original ;-)
Guitars are really cool

Jean-Sébastien

[64Guitars]

A favourite of mine too. I was listening to The Pogues' version just last night. A cool cover with that unmistakable Fenderbender sound. Well done.

[Hook]

Top shelf brother!
Rock On !

[Redler]

I remember the version by the Pogues... You've done great job here!

[Tootler]

Nice one. I enjoy your electric folk, you keep the character of the song while creating good arrangements.

This song was originally written about Salford where Ewan MacColl grew up and where I went to University. In the third verse he originally wrote "Smelt the smoke on the Salford wind" which is what I originally heard. Salford City Council (as it was in those days) were not too happy about that so he rewrote it - the result made the song totally universal and could apply to any large industrial city.

The Irish seem to have taken this song to their hearts as a number of Irish bands have covered it and when I went to a friend's wedding in Belfast a few years ago, the band they had booked sang it at the end of their set!