The band plays medium and large concert venues around the county, has numerous commercial endorsements, and continues to be among the leaders on the Celtic rock music scene.

I was there for probably two months or so and then Ken called and said ‘we need a guy to play the Irish stuff,’ and asked me to join the band,” Brennan added. “After that tour was over I went back to school. When the band played, I’d run over and play one, maybe two songs on accordion, and then I’d run back over to the merch booth and sell T-shirts for the rest of the day,” laughed Brennan. So I went out on a three-month tour in the summer of ‘03 selling t-shirts all day. So he told Ken (Casey) that he had this buddy who could sort of play a number of things. He knew I could play the accordion and tin whistle, weird Irish instruments and stuff. “One of our old guitar players Mark Orrrell and I were buddies growing up… one summer the band was going on the Warped Tour. The band introduced a couple of songs at recent shows. There’s a cool vibe on the record, the vocals still have an aggressive, high-energy feel, but the music is played solely on acoustic instruments. We’d never done that before, we’d have to construct these purely acoustic songs.” We decided to challenge ourselves to see if we could keep ourselves interested in music when it’s not roaring electric guitars. “When we decided to do these Woody Guthrie songs, initially we were going to approach it as we would any other Dropkick’s album, and then we started thinking more along the lines of what his songs actually sounded like. “It was a sort of natural progression,” explained Brennan. I learned more about the band’s latest project in a recent interview with lead guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Tim Brennan. (The album title references the famous quote on legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie’s guitar.)

Known for hard-driving Celtic punk-rock, the Dropkick Murphy’s are shipping on down to the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Providence Friday, October 21.īut don’t expect a typical Dropkick Murphys concert – instead of the usual highly-charged show, the Boston-based band will be playing a full night of acoustic music highlighting songs from their new album This Machine Still Kills Fascists.

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