Blaggards

Blaggards are led by guitarist and singer Patrick Devlin, who grew up in Dublin, Ireland{{cite web|author=Bob Ruggiero |url=http://www.houstonpress.com/2006-09-21/music/the-lucky-charms/ |title=Houston Music - The Lucky Charms - page 1 |publisher=Houston Press |date=2007-02-16 |accessdate=2009-01-20}}{{cite web|url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/music/local/3539832.html |title=Blaggards | Traditional Irish songs with a twist |publisher=Houston Chronicle |date= 2005-12-22|accessdate=2009-01-20}} listening to Irish rebel music and heavy metal bands like Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden.

After moving to Houston in 1994,{{cite web|url=http://www.houstonpress.com/2001-03-15/music/pluck-of-the-irish/ | title=Pluck of the Irish | publisher=Houston Press | date=2001-03-15 | accessdate=2009-01-20}} Devlin fronted an Irish rock band called On The Dole for several years before starting Blaggards in July 2004 with bass player Chad Smalley (son of Nobel laureate Richard Smalley),{{cite journal |last=Kroto |first=Harold |authorlink=Harry Kroto |year=2005 |title=Richard E. Smalley: Fullerenes |journal=Angewandte Chemie |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=26–27 |doi=10.1002/anie.200504094 |doi-access=free }} violinist Turi Hoiseth, and drummer Brian Vogel. Hoiseth and Vogel have since left the band, leaving Devlin and Smalley as the only original members.

Blaggards have toured nationally {{cite web|url=http://www.houston-press.com/2008-04-03/music/zydepunks-with-blaggards/ |title=Houston - Music - Zydepunks, with Blaggards |publisher=Houston Press |date= |accessdate=2009-01-20}} and internationally,{{cite web |url=http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2010/04/blaggards_do_ireland_first_sto.php |title=Blaggards Do Ireland: First Stop, The Guinness Factory And Phil Lynott Statue; Three Encores At First Dublin Gig |publisher=Houston Press |date=2010-04-06 |accessdate=2010-09-17 |archive-date=2010-08-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100813083622/http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2010/04/blaggards_do_ireland_first_sto.php |url-status=dead }} and performed at South by Southwest 2008,{{cite web|url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/music/5594501.html |title=Houston artists take their place at SXSW |publisher=Houston Chronicle |date=2008-03-05 |accessdate=2009-01-20}} where they were the only Celtic-based act on the official schedule.

Their music has been played on the Sirius Satellite Radio program Celtic Crush, hosted by Larry Kirwan of Black 47.{{cite web|author=James Hannon | url=http://lantern-media.com/SBS-LarryKirwanInterviewMarch2007-part2.html |title=Interview with Larry Kirwan - Part 2 of 3 |publisher=Lantern-media.com |date= |accessdate=2010-09-17 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070315205550/http://lantern-media.com/SBS-LarryKirwanInterviewMarch2007-part2.html |archivedate = 2007-03-15}} In 2013 he included their recording of The Irish Rover on his compilation album Larry Kirwan's Celtic Invasion.{{cite web |url=http://www.valley-entertainment.com/larry-kirwans-celtic-invasion.html |title=Larry Kirwan's Celtic Invasion |work=Valley Entertainment |accessdate=6 March 2013}}

The song "Big Strong Man" from Blaggards' first album Standards appears in the 2010 British film The Kid, directed by Nick Moran.{{cite web | url=http://music4movies.org/the_kid.html | title=Final Source Track Listing - The Kid | publisher=Music4Movies | date=2010-09-15 | accessdate=2010-09-17 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727102113/http://music4movies.org/the_kid.html | archive-date=2011-07-27 | url-status=dead }}

“Big Strong Man” and "Drunken Sailor" (also from Standards) were both featured in episode 86 of the CBS series The Good Wife, aired on March 24, 2013.{{cite web|url=https://www.tunefind.com/show/the-good-wife/season-4/14229#song-62933 | title=The Good Wife Soundtrack S4 · E18 · Death of a Client | publisher=tunefind | date=2013-03-24 | accessdate=2018-04-25}}

• Patrick Devlin - Vocals and guitar
• Chad Smalley - Vocals and bass
• Kevin Newton - Drums

• Standards (2005)

1. Drunken Sailor

2. Bog Songs

3. Big Strong Man (Yakety Sax)

4. Prison Love Songs (Folsom Prison Blues/ The Fields of Athenry)

5. Slapper's Medley

6. Foggy Dew

7. Botany Bay

8. Rocky Road to Dublin

9. Suspicious Minds

10. Irish Rover

• Live in Texas (2010)

1. Waxie's Dargle (Live)

2. Whiskey in the Jar (Live)

3. Rocky Road to Dublin (Live)

4. Spancil Hill (Live)

5. Slapper's Medley (Live)

6. Leaving of Liverpool (Live)

7. Botany Bay (Live)

8. Foggy Dew (Live)

9. Big Strong Man (Live)

10. Drunken Sailor (Live)

11. Bog Songs (Live)

12. Wild Rover (Live)

13. Irish Rover (Live)

• BLAGMATIC (2021)

1. Moonshiner

2. Spanish Lady

3. Sweet 16

''4. Delilah

5. Rain or Shine

6. PLFM

7. Wild Rover

8. 2nd Worst

9. Wagon Wheel

10. Spancil Hill

11. Lights of El Paso

{{reflist}}

• [http://blaggards.com/ Official website]
• [http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid%3A270838 Review of "Standards" in the Austin Chronicle]
• [http://www.askewreviews.com/music/blaggards.htm Review of "Standards" at Askew Reviews]
• [http://www.paddyrock.com/home/?p=117 Paddy Rock Radio's Top Celtic Rock & Punk CD’s of 2005]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• [http://www.connectsavannah.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A6580 Article in Connect Savannah Online]
• [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/12/31/blaggards_of_the_year/ Article in The Boston Globe about the word "blaggard" that mentions the band]
• [http://www.metalmartyr.com/contest-win-blaggards-cd-and-t-shirt/ Article about Blaggards on MetalMartyr.com]

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