#1 Celtic Rock/Trad Album of The Year 2012– GrinningBeggar.com (USA)
#2 Irish Punk Album of The Year 2012- ShiteNOnions.com (USA)
#3 Celtic Rock Album of The Year 2012- PaddyRock.com (USA)
9.5 / 10 - Punk.ie (Ireland)
The Devil or the Barrel opens with the original song “Whiskey Chaser” – one of four original songs on the album. Over the course of these thirteen tracks TLB mix and match a variety of influences which make up their sound. For example, the rambling American ballad “Rye Whiskey” (a.k.a. Jack O’Diamonds) shows the diversity with some Sham-Rockabilly styling and Irish Punk Rock attitude. The drunken violence at the core of the Traditional Irish song “Johnny Jump Up” is underpinned by a brooding darkness that is not often explored in drinking songs.
Also included on the album are new studio recordings of three songs that TLB released in 2011 on their live album Drunk, Sick, Tired. “All For Me Grog” (another dark take on an upbeat trad. song about the drink), “Johnny You’re A Roving Blade” and “Real Old Mountain Dew” all are significantly amped up. Going the other way, the band shows a light touch on “The Little Vagabond,” a William Blake poem which was originally put to music by Greg Brown. TLB took this up-tempo bluegrassy song and ironically… slowed it down.
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I'll tell you a story that happened to me One day as I went down to Cork by the sea
The day it was bright and the sun it was warm, Says I a quiet pint wouldn't do me no harm
I went in and I called for a bottle of stout, I'm sorry, Says the barkeep all the beer is sold out
Try whiskey or paddy, ten years in the wood Says I, I'll try cider, I've heard that it’s good.
CHORUS:
Oh never, Oh never, Oh never again If I live to see a hundred or a hundred and ten
I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up After drinking a quart of the Johnny Jump Up
After downing the third I went out to the yard Where I bumped into Brody, the big civic guard
Come here to me boy, don't you know I'm the law? Well, I up with me fist and I shattered his jaw
He fell to the ground with his knees doubled up But it wasn't I hit him, 'twas Johnny Jump Up
The next thing I remember down in Cork by the sea Was a cripple on crutches and says he to me
I'm afraid of me life I'll be hit by a car Won't you help me across to the Celtic Knot Bar?
After downing a quart of that cider so sweet He threw down his crutches and danced on his feet
I went up the lee road, a friend for to see They call it the madhouse in Cork by the Sea
But when I got there, sure the truth I will tell, They had this poor bugger locked up in a cell
Said the guard, testing him, say these words if you can, "Around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran"
Tell him I'm not crazy, tell him I'm not mad It was only a sip of the bottle I had
Well, a man died in the union by the name of McNabb They washed him and laid him outside on a slab
And after his measurements the coroner did take His wife brought him home to a bloody fine wake
Twas about 12 o'clock and the beer was high The corpse he sits up and says with a sigh
I can't get to heaven, they won't let me up Til I bring them a quart of that Johnny Jump Up
So I heard y’all at the Louisiana renfest and I had to get this cd. Y’all made my blood race. I felt the call to fight for the Allfather and for honor and glory. I absolutely love this! <3 chiyori
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