Shots (Damien Dempsey album)
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| Studio album by Damien Dempsey | ||||
| Released | March 11, 2005 (Ireland) March 14, 2005 (UK) |
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| Length | 50:00 | |||
| Label | Sony/BMG, UFO Music | |||
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Shots is a 2005 studio album by the Irish singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey which was released in Ireland and the United Kingdom in March 2005. It is the third studio album released by the singer-songwriter. Brian Eno provides backing vocals on the opening track "Sing All Your Cares Away". The album discusses a diverse range of topics including oppression, slavery, drugs and poverty.
Shots entered the Irish Albums Chart at #1 and reached platinum status. It went on to receive one nomination at the 2006 Meteor Awards.
Shots was Dempsey's third studio album, the successor to his 2003 platinum selling album Seize the Day which was the occasion during which his music became more noticed and appreciated. Since then he has received praise from musicians such as Christy Moore, Sinéad O'Connor and Shane MacGowan, whilst Morrissey invited him on tour with him in 2004.Shots was recorded in Rockfield Studio in Wales and produced by John Reynolds who has worked with Dempsey before.
The third track on the album "St. Patrick's Day" begins with a guitar which slowly builds up into a combination of tin whistles, uilleann pipes and drums. It describes pre-Celtic Tiger era Ireland. The fifth track "Party On" discusses the negative aspect of Ireland's drugs culture. The sixth track, "Colony", is a song about oppression and colonialism which is reworked from Dempsey's debut album, They Don't Teach This Shit in School. The penultimate track, "Choctaw Nation", details the plight of the Native American Choctaw people, whilst the final track, "Spraypaint Backalley", features a line from Oscar Wilde – "we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars".
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