Joe Browne on the Internet
Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008I bumped into Joe last week and he said to me, Hey Bock, when are you going to put me on the internet?
What could I say? I’ve made a complete shit of every recording I ever attempted.
Joe, I said, I’ll do it just as soon as I can figure out how to record music properly, because I’m no good at it.
But luckily, my colleague is much better at it then I am, and he handed me a little memory stick with this on it, so here ya go: Joe Browne and friends, now on the internet, recorded in Dolans of Limerick a few months ago.
Enjoy.
Stumble it!
August 29th, 2008
brilliant music…
God, I miss Dolans… :-(
August 29th, 2008
I remember slow sets in Cheers on Catherine St, Joe’s daughter Sam belting out ‘Stop’ and me dancing (ie lying up against) some trendy young wan from the art college. Aah, such times. Joe never was a looker like his daughter.
August 29th, 2008
He is playing cois fharraige?
August 29th, 2008
ah slow sets in Cheers when I was in art college…those were the days my friend… what do tha young wans have to look forward to now - epilepsy inducing strobe lights and thumping bass? ick… ick ick ick ick ick…
August 29th, 2008
Fuck me. Joe Browne on the Interweb…I’ve seen it all, who needs colliding isotopes to finish us off ! How the fuck will we fit his head in through Jerry Flannery’s door now that International fame has come his way. Stay out on the veranda Joe, have it brought to you.
(Nick - sorry for being pedantic but Joe’s daughters’ name is Dawn, and yep, she beats him - and a million more of us - out the door in the looks dept.)
Anyway ,keep on fuckin ‘em off Joe, you Dawg. Up The Road !
August 29th, 2008
Great stuff from Joe. A fine musician and great character.
August 29th, 2008
Great capture Bock, It’s not a matter of Joe on the www - for years Joe WAS the http://www. I remember him singing ‘Spanish is a loving tongue’ in Slattery’s in Kildimo with Rolph on the fretless bass - fantastic players and entertainers.
Nuts
August 30th, 2008
Yeah Nick, you’re mixin’ up your Brownes. There is a Sam Brown who had a hit with Stop, she used to sing with the Jules Holland orch. for a while. But yeah, Dawn was a little cutie!
August 30th, 2008
Wahoy!That cleared the head.Go Joe.
August 30th, 2008
Yeah. Mea culpa on the Browne girls mixup. (That’s almost a tempting lead-in to your recent ‘I’m a racialist but…’ post, Bock, but I’m letting that one lie…)
Just to complete the JB confusion, I think Sam Browne’s dad was a Joe too. Except of the cockernee persuasion. Other than that, a couple of regular Joes.
August 31st, 2008
Brilliant,it is years since i have seen them,good as ever.
I used to go and see them play on Sunday afternoons 20 year or more back in the Parkway Pub…in this video with him is who played with him back then…(missing is Ray Fean )I don’t know this drummer.
Dave Keary to the left ,Rolf Lindheim bass???(ex tuesday blue).
The Brown Brothers were big in the late 60’s 70’s in limerick…Joe ,John (I know well) and Willie.
Well done Bock.Great stuff brings back the real good times.
September 1st, 2008
Tipp, those Parkway sessions used to be fantastic, they also had a great line up doing a Country-Rock Revue in Quin’s on Ellen Street preceding that with Joe, Dave Keary and The O’Malleys (Brian Mul, Peter Donnelly, ….Ger Costelloe?….), think John Browne played a few times and Dawn did a few songs. With just about anyone who felt like jamming along. Packed the place out, if memory serves there was Brownes’ re-union on one (or more) nights…open to correction here…when Willie joined in. Or did that happen in the Parkway ?
btw, That definitely looks like Rolf in the video clip.
September 1st, 2008
Joe and co are still seriously rockin’ which is no mean feat in the city of the broken treaty!
god bless them…