A Tune A Week

Prompted by a close friend in SC, who’s been promising me a good session when I get down to Columbia. I got it from The Irish Tradition’s album The Corner House, where I think it’s played on the concertina, though there’s no mention of concertinas in the album description and I don’t have the liner notes. It’s a Billy McComiskey disc; does he play the concertina as well as the button box? Anyhow. My rendition is still pretty slow, but I’m sounding okay.

From Patrick Street’s Made In Cork. I suspect one of them made it up, as I haven’t found it anywhere else. I got the album from eMusic.com, which I discovered today via an old and REALLY LONG Chiff & Fipple forum thread about learning Irish tunes from sheet music that was prompted by some comments from Alan Ng. eMusic.com actually has some stuff I was interested in, which surprised me. They also have a moderate selection of Cajun and Zydeco, but that’s a story for another day.

Yet another from the used-to-know-it list. Now I can play it with something like rhythm, so I can take it to the sessions. (Although I’m tempted to retract that remark about rhythm, now that I’ve listened to the recording…) I have a version on a William Sullivan tape that’s interestingly different in a couple of places from the current “standard” I’m playing here.

Heard it at a session recently—the same old story. I don’t think I have any recordings of this one. It’s one I knew years ago before I starting being serious about this, and had forgotten. This one is a lot less choppy when I play it than Ballymanus, even though they have some pretty similar runs of notes. I don’t get it.