| features in: Album Chart of 1969 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1960s |
Recorded at Sound Technique Studios, London in 1968, and engineered by John Wood and Ron Fender. Notably, their 3rd and 4th LPs “Give A Damn” (TRA-184) and “The Barley Corn” (TRA-185) were released on the same day. This deliberate act was intended to showcase the range of the Johnstons folk music, with “Give A Damn” focused on the contemporary and “The Barley Corn” featuring traditionals. Producer Nathan Joseph’s sleeve notes read: “I met The Johnstons less than a year ago. Much has happened since. I have encouraged them to widen their repertoire and they now perform much contemporary material with the same flair and excellence they bring to Irish traditional music. They have had a single in the American Top 100 and simultaneously with the release of this LP an LP of contemporary material is also released. Their records are now out in America, Canada, Japan, France, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Germany. They are, in short, an internationally established group. Nonetheless, Irish music remains their first love and they have not neglected it nor turned their backs on their musical heritage. This LP is not just a polite glance back at their musical roots. It shows a development in their handling of traditional Irish music that comes from a serious and continuing devotion to the material. Appear they may in the big TV pop shows but “the mighty musicians of Co. Clare” are never far from their musical consciousness.”
The Jukebox Rebel
26–Jul–2010
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [02:50]  The Johnstons - Ye Jacobites By Name (Traditional) Folk |
| A2 | [04:37]  The Johnstons - The Coleraine Regatta (Traditional) Folk |
| A3 | [02:54]  The Johnstons - The Newry Highwayman (Traditional) Folk |
| A4 | [02:40]  The Johnstons - Joseph’s Fancy / A Trip To Durrow (Traditional) Folk |
| A5 | [03:10]  The Johnstons - What Put The Blood? (Traditional) Folk |
| A6 | [02:43]  The Johnstons - The Fenians From Cahirciveen (Traditional) Folk |
| B1 | [03:04]  The Johnstons - The Barleycorn (Traditional) Folk |
| B2 | [01:34]  The Johnstons - Sorry The Day I Was Married (Traditional) Folk |
| B3 | [04:30]  The Johnstons - The Flower Of Northumberland (Traditional) Folk |
| B4 | [03:13]  The Johnstons - The Nine Points Of Roguery / The Humours Of Tulla (Traditional) Folk |
| B5 | [03:46] The Johnstons - Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore (Traditional) Folk |
| B6 | [03:03]  The Johnstons - Fuigfidh Mise ‘n’ Baile Seo (Traditional) Folk |
