DIRTY OLD TOWN EWAN McCOLL PEGGY SEEGER

[@davidhorn8455]

Love this performance! I used to regularly listen to Ewan and Peggy at the "Singers Club" in London in the 1970s. They were so good!
David Horn

[@iskandertime747]

This is my favorite version of this song. He knows he belongs to this town, and loves it and hates it in exactly equal measures. Peggy's voice is so perfect.

[@hooliganyouth]

I only knew this song because of The Pogues, twenty years ago. Wow. Excellent post. Thank you for the education.

[@margaret-dianedube6939]

What a talent; I was reading about Kirsty, marking my calendar for October 10. Talk about a gifted father and daughter.

[@markrevelle1]

wonderful album - great clarinet from Bruce Turner.....

[@therongould]

Bit of jazz when you least expect it.
Bruce Turner clarinet
Fitzroy Coleman guitar
Both good mates of mine.

[@raymondthielens]

Fantastic !!! For me the best version ever.

[@drstevie]

Beautiful.

[@bhpinball]

Ewan McColl and Pete Seeger? Nice!
Wait, Peggy...?
Hey, this is nice too. Cool blues flavor
Ah, so Pete was her half brother

[@SirCoughsalot]

Peggy Seeger is much more than Pete's half-sister. She's an amazing artist in her own right, and she was MacColl's partner, later wife, and collaborator from the 1950s till his death.

[@robw7676]

Sensational

[@ezekielsmukler2903]

Have also heard Wild Geese do this song. Liked both them and Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger doing it.

[@stv111play]

yup.

[@calluml.3277]

I’ve been trying to figure out how to play this on guitar, anybody have any leads on anything like tabs or what tuning he’s playing in?

[@bingalong]

Same, it's not at all what the Pogues and Dubliners and co. play. They simplified it hugely to four chords.

[@smilingvulture]

original version is much darker

[@BohFra]

❤

[@ItsNotFootball]

When did the Salford wind become the smokey wind?

[@davidengelmann1636]

When Salford complained

[@johnbarker8504]

Nineteen shillings and eleven pence! Not exactly cheap!

[@chandlerbingbong]

*Ewan Maccoll was Kirsty Maccoll's dad. Not a lot of people know that*

[@WYCHWOOD18]

You saying 😂

[@twatmunro]

Everybody knows that.

[@chandlerbingbong]

@@twatmunro Betcha million quid they don't.

[@AlfredandIsobel]

Anyone who knows who Ewan MacColl is knows he's Kirsty's old man! 😂

[@cletgentric]

Amusant, tout le monde le sait.