11 STORIES OF PAIN & GLORY | DROPKICK MURPHYS

3.17.17 I guess It's called Celtic Punk and it is Saint Patrick's day '17 as I write this so right perfect huh. The Dropkick Murphys hail from Quincy, Massachusetts, a suburb South of South Boston. You don't have to be from Ireland to be an Irish band. If you were to disagree, well then, dem are fightin' wards....

You might re-call their tune, "I'm Shipping Up To Boston" fittingly used in a montage scene from Scorsese's 2006 Academy Award winning film The Departed.

This album has all the energy of 2005s The Warriors Code that has "Shipping.." on it. Picture Social Distortion with added bagpipes, tin whistles and fiddles employed in traditional Irish music and you might just have the Murphys sound. And like with The Real Mckenzies I rather like this combo. With 20 years at it one could say the Dropkick Murphys have established this sound well....Now I can go drink Bushmill's Irish and fight