Songs From Sun Street
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Songs From Sun Street is the 1998 studio album release of the Irish rock band, The Saw Doctors
The Saw Doctors
The Saw Doctors are an Irish rock band. Formed in 1986 in Tuam, County Galway, they have achieved eighteen Top 30 singles in Ireland, including three number ones. Their first number one, "I Useta Lover," topped the Irish charts for nine consecutive weeks in 1990, and still holds the record for the...

. The album was not only released on CD, but audio cassette and vinyl as well. It was released on The Saw Doctors' own record label, Shamtown Records as well as Paradigm Records.

Track listing

  1. "Good News" (Carton, Doherty, Moran, Stevens) — 3:04
  2. "Sugartown" (Carton, Moran, Stevens) — 3:13
  3. "Galway and Mayo" (Moran) — 3:33
  4. "Carry Me Away" (Carton, Moran) — 4:10
  5. "Heading for the Sunshine" (Carton, Moran) — 2:36
  6. "Catríona Tells Lies" (Carton, Doherty, Donnelly) — 2:37
  7. "Blah, Blah, Blah" (Carton, Doherty, Moran) — 2:35
  8. "D'Ya Wanna Hear My Guitar?" (Carton, Moran) — 2:50
  9. "Joyce Country Céilí Band" (Carton, Doherty, Moran) — 3:47
  10. "High Nellie" (Carton, Moran, Stevens) — 1:48
  11. "Best of Friends" (Doherty) — 2:35
  12. "Will It Ever Stop Raining?" (Carton, Doherty, Moran, Murray) — 2:48
  13. "Tommy K." (Carton, Moran, Stevens) — 2:43
  14. "Away With the Fairies" (Carton, Doherty, Moran) — 3:23
  15. "I'll Be on My Way" (Carton, Moran) — 3:06
    • "Apples, Sweets or Chocolate" (hidden track
      Hidden track
      In the field of recorded music, a hidden track is a piece of music that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, vinyl record or other recorded medium in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener...

       from 7:58 to 11:40)

Band members

  • Davy Carton
    Davy Carton
    Davy Carton is a singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist from Tuam, County Galway, in the Republic of Ireland. He is best known as a core member of the Saw Doctors, the folk-rock band he co-founded with Leo Moran and others in 1987....

    : Vocals, guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , array mbira
    Array mbira
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  • Leo Moran
    Leo Moran
    Leo Moran is best known as lead guitarist and sometimes vocalist in the Irish folk rock band The Saw Doctors....

    : Vocals, guitar
  • Pearse Doherty: Vocals, bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • John Donnelly: Drum
    Drum
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    s, vocals
  • Derek Murray: Keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , accordion
    Accordion
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    , guitar
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