Track Listing

1. Good News
2. Sugar Town
3. Galway And Mayo
4. Carry Me Away
5. Heading For The Sunshine
6. Catriona Tells Lies
7. Blah Blah Blah
8. D'ya Wanna Hear My Guitar
9. Joyce Country Ceili Band
10. High Nellie
11. Best Of Friends
12. Will It Ever Stop Raining
13. Tommy K
14. Away With The Fairies
15. I'll Be On My Way
16. Apples Sweets Or Chocolate

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65215 in Music
• Released on: 1998-10-12
• Number of discs: 1

From Amazon.com
As feel-good friendly as a vintage Tom Petty anthem. As singsong jangly as an old Irish Rovers standard. And every bit as backwoods basic as some Carter Family lament from the '30s. Nope. There's not much fault to be found with the pint-swilling, rafter-raising folk-rock of Celtic crooners the Saw Doctors. This is the ultimate party band, whose "N17" is--in addition to being one of the biggest-selling singles in Irish history--best experienced live, with every voice in the house jumping in on the call-and-response chorus. Revolving around the hearth-fire vocals of guitarist Davy Carton, SD discs may not quite capture that frantic energy, but they're typically more of the "N17" same. Sun Street is no exception. It's a warm, personable effort, with trademark pub pleasers ("Tommy K," "Catriona Tells Lies," and the goofy "D'ya Wanna Hear My Guitar?") complementing plush, gentle ballads ("Galway and Mayo," "Heading for the Sunshine," a nursery-rhyme-ish "Away with the Fairies"). Lift a Guinness to the lads. The world needs more true-blue bands like the Saw Doctors. --Tom Lanham

Customer Reviews

Just gimme the good news
The Saw Doctors' fourth album sees them veering away from the lush, highly polished ballads of "Same Oul' Town" and back to the rockabout, feelgood numbers of earlier albums. That's not to say this album is shallow - the opening track "Good News" could be a prayer for the 21st century, and there's the usual amount of pub philosophy from the sublime ("I'll Be On My Way") to the ridiculous ("Will It Ever Stop Raining?"). The re-recorded (almost orchestrated) "Joyce Country Ceili Band" is a joy to listen to (and a vast improvement on the rather plodding original) and the daftness of "Catriona Tells Lies" and "D'you Wanna Hear My Guitar" are smile-raisers, but many of the tracks are forgettable - good for pub singalongs, but not songs that grab my heart the way most of "Same Oul' Town" does. Still, there's no question that the boys from Tuam know what they're good at, and long may they keep at it.

A joy to behold...
Once again, the boys from Tuam deliver the goods. A lot of catchy tunes on this one. "Will it ever stop raining?" should have been released as a single here in the UK. It would have sold without a doubt. I'm not too fond of "Away with the fairies", the music is a bit too twee. However, the lyrics to the song are corkers. Easily the best song is "The Joyce Country Ceili Band". You've not lived until you've heard this track live though.

Buth this album and go to see the boys live. You won't be disapointed.

Pure Fun
This is the greatest album ever. As a student who is often subjected to Steps, (not that I am being nasty about them!), to hear witty, and fun songs with great lyrics and catchy tunes, is a welcome break. The new Joyce Country Ceilidh Band is not as good as the first version, however the deliciously delightful 'Away with the faeries' more than makes up for it. And when coupled with the pure fun of 'I'll be on my way', (which WILL be played at my funeral [listen to the song]), and the hidden track 'Apples, sweets or chocolates' makes the album unmissable for anyone from Saw Doctors fans to the student population of the world. An absolute must.