The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem:

Freedom's Sons:(1966)

Irish Songs of Rebellion:(1967)

Liam Clancy once told Bob Dylan, "Remember Bob, No fear, no envy, no meanness." The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem road the wave of folk revival through the 60's, but they were cut from a different cloth. For them this style of music had never gone away in any significant shift that it would need a revival. Wearing sweaters their mother would make them they took their rebellious songs, drinking songs,sad songs, happy songs out to confront the world like good Irishmen. Now, I love the Pogues, and some of the Dropkick Murphys stuff, but The Clancy Brothers are the real deal, and their influence is clear on the formers.