Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for The Red Crow by Altan

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Artist NameAltan
Album TitleThe Red Crow
MusiciansMairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (fiddle, vocals), Frankie Kennedy (flute, whistle, vocals), Paul O'Shaughnessy (fiddle), Mark Kelly (guitar, vocals), Ciaran Curran (bouzouki), with various.
Source and
other information		Green Linnet GLCD 1109, 1990. Recorded June 1990 in Dublin. Includes lyrics and English translations of the four songs.

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Every Irish tune on this album was identified by carefully comparing this recorded performance with all other tunes in the Irish Traditional Music Tune Index—by comparing musically, disregarding tune titles. The track and tune numbers below, furthermore, correspond to what you actually hear on this album. This page is thus more reliable than the original album notes, track titles listed by iTunes/Media Player, or other Web sites, all of which usually suffer from errors.

TrackTuneTune ID#RhythmTitles used for this tune (and other notes)
11 Tune Info
2088		 Reel Drunken Tinker, The / The Yellow Tinker / Yellow Tinker #1 / The Jolly Tinker / Dick Cosgrove's Reel / Dick Cosgrove's (also in G Dorian, also with 2nd part doubled; or, instead, two or three slightly different tunes could possibly be distinguished across all of these sources, in which case the titles of them would be probably The Yellow Tinker from Donegal, The Drunken Tinker from Connaught, and then Dick Cosgrove's, the one more similar to #552) (compare 1st part with 1st part of #552)
2 Tune Info
1076		 Reel Lady Montgomery (as Gan Ainm on JOS 1) (also in A)
3 Tune Info
1273		 Reel Merry Harriers, The / Merry Harrier's Reel / Na Fiairí Feá (3rd in set The Hillsbrook Reels on MMcG 3) (compare reversed parts to Piper on Horseback #1587)
21 Tune Info
3244		 SgJig Con Cassidy's
2 Tune Info
563		 JigSl Dusty Miller, The / Dusty Miller / Dusty Millar / An Muilleoir faoi Dheannach / The Dusty Mills / Benny's Jig (also doubled, also A Major, also 3 parts) (compare #2603)
31 Tune Info
2401		 Song Flower of Magherally, The
41 Tune Info
218		 Reel Brenda Stubbert's (2nd in set Feabhra on Lu 7) (also in B) (composed by Jerry Holland)
2 Tune Info
217		 Reel Dan Breen's / Dan Breen's Reel / Breen's Reel / Dan Breens / West Clare Reel / The West Clare / Ríl Iarthar an Chláir (3rd in set The Maids of Galway on WFO 1; 3rd in set The Maid of Galway on WFO 1; 2nd in set West Clare Reels on Chlr; on MvC 2, this tune appears again at the end of that track) (also in G or E)
3 Tune Info
1654		 Reel Red Box, The (composed by Arty McGlynn)
51 Tune Info
2766		 Song Inis Dhún Rámha
61 Tune Info
950		 Hland Jimmy Lyon's
2 Tune Info
1882		 Hland Teelin Highland, The / Tom Tailor's (composed by John Cassidy)
3 Tune Info
2976		 Reel Red Crow, The (composed by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh)
4 Tune Info
233		 Reel Broken Bridge, The / Philip O’Beirne’s Delight / Aoibhneas Philip Uí Bheirn (compare The Daisy Field #446)
71 Tune Info
1326		 Song Moll Dubh A' Ghleanna
81 Tune Info
2040		 JigD Wedding Jig, The
2 Tune Info
849		 JigD Huidai Gallagher's March / Huidaí Gallagher's March / Hudie Gallagher's March / Darby Gallagher's / Murphy's Delight
3 Tune Info
2351		 JigSl James Byrne's
4 Tune Info
1285		 Reel Mickey Doherty's
5 Tune Info
2403		 Reel Welcome Home Grainne (3rd in set Welcome Home Gráinne on DByrn) (also in B)
91 Tune Info
2402		 Song Mallaí Chroich Shlí
101 Tune Info
1927		 Waltz Tommy Bhetty's Waltz / Tom Bhetty's (2nd in set Cooleys Waltzes on CrssCl) (composed by Tommy 'Bhetty' Maguire)
111 Tune Info
579		 Reel Emyvale, The / John Doherty's (also doubled) (compare 1st part with 1st part of The Repeal of the Union #1666)
2 Tune Info
3245		 Reel Ríl Gan Ainm [untitled]
3 Tune Info
1901		 Reel Three Merry Sisters of Fate, The
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