Track Listing

1. Sing All Our Cares Away
2. Not On Your Own Tonight
3. St Patrick�s Day
4. Cursed with a Brain
5. Party On
6. Colony
7. Patience
8. Hold Me
9. Choctaw Nation
10. Spraypaint Backalley

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92412 in Music
• Released on: 2005-03-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Album Description
Damien Dempsey is a 28 year old singer/songwriter whose body of work to date is an intricate, hard-hitting social commentary born of the streets of Dublin and coloured by his experiences in New York and London. His third album, Shots includes standout tracks "Party On", "St. Patrick's Day" and the Brian Eno-assisted "Sing All Our Cares Away". There's also an updated version of "Colony", which appeared on Dempsey's long-since deleted debut, They Don't Teach This Shit In School.

CD Description
Third album, following 2003's 'Seize The Day', from acclaimed Dublin singer songwriter whose funky collision of Irish traditional song, reggae, hip hop and rock with hard hitting political lyrics has gained him a cult following and seen him compared to such greats as Christy Moore and Shane McGowan. This album, recorded mostly live in the studio in a matterof weeks, has a rawer, looser, more rock feel than his earlier work.

Customer Reviews

The Irish Beowulf
The day that I bought this album I was shaking and itching to get it back home to listen to it. Its been a long time since I have felt that way about a new release - the urgency to listen to it as soon as you possibly can because of the anticipation of whats going to be on it. What are these songs going to do to you?

I played it through once and then again and then again. Not one single song did I want to skip. From the more melancholy but optimistic 'Sing all our cares away' and 'Not on your own tonight' the album progresses onto songs that make you want to dance ('St. Paddy's Day' and 'Party On') and then songs that make you realise how the Irish were so dispossessed and messed around ('Colony', 'Patience', 'Chocktaw Nation'. Damien's difference is his ability to tell the world straight about Ireland's past, present and future without making you feel like that if you're not Irish you can't be a part of his music.

If anyone has ever read Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, then you can see traces of Damien in there - not as Beowulf, but Grendel. But this Grendel isn't going to be defeated.

This album will make you fall in love with Irish culture and with Damien. If you haven't already heard 'Seize the Day'(previous album')then go and listen to it. And listen to this album; let Damo sing all your cares away.

quite simply outstanding
the most unrewarded singer of modern times is back with another stonker. this guy can write and sing with robustness, careful melody and total viciousness inside just one track. this one does indeed take a few listens, but after that inital investment you'll be loving this. alternative is not the word, more like unique.. no matter what culture you come from you'll find this record can touch you. 'patience' exhonorates damiens idol Peter Tosh whilst the rest of his material is pebbledashed with splats of every other singer songwriter you ever loved. an honest writer with a voice that hasn't been matched, buy it, then see him live for the real deal!

Damo's back and incedibly his voice is even better.
Damien Dempsey is vastly underated and deserves alot more credit than he is currently getting.Somehow Damo's voice is getting better something i thought after his second album "seize the day" was impossible to do.In his new album he tackles the same subjects Charecters with alcoholism and drug addictions (sing all your cares away" "party on" and songs about Irish history,all really intersting songs,my personal favourite although they are all strong tracks is "colony" a 7 minute epic rant BUY IT YOU WONT BE DISSAPOINTED TRUST ME.