Ride On (Christy Moore album)

Infobox Album | Name = Ride On
Type = Album
Artist = Christy Moore


Released = 1984
Recorded = March, 1984
Genre = Folk
Length = 40:49
Label = Roadrunner
Producer = ?
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:imf1zfs7eh2k~T1 link]

Last album = "The Time Has Come"
(1983)
This album = "Ride On"
(1984)
Next album = "Ordinary Man"
(1985)

"Ride On" is an album by Irish folk singer Christy Moore, released in 1984, and is widely regarded as one of his best.Fact|date=February 2007 It contains one of his most popular songs, the title track. A number of songs - powerful and evocative - celebrate and remember the actions of those involved in political struggles, or the effects of those struggles; such as "Vive la Quinte Brigada" which is concerned with the Irish contingent amongst the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War; or "El Salvador" dealing with the civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s and 1990s. Other songs deal with Irish history - "The City of Chicago", about emigration to America during the Irish famines of the late 1870s; "Back Home in Derry" about the transportation to Australia of convicts; and "Lisdoonvarna" celebrating a music festival that took place annually in that town until the early 1980s.

Track listing

# "The City of Chicago"
# "Ride On"
# "Vive la Quinte Brigada"
# "Songs of Wandering Aongus"
# "McIlhatton"
# "Lisdoonvarna"
# "Among The Wicklow Hills"
# "Sonny's Dream"
# "The Dying Soldier"
# "El Salvador"
# "Back Home In Derry"
# "The Least We Can Do"