Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for 1975. The First Album by The Bothy Band

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Artist NameThe Bothy Band
Album Title1975. The First Album
MusiciansPaddy Keenan (pipes, whistle), Matt Molloy (flute, whistle), Tommy Peoples (fiddle), Donal Lunny (bouzouki, vocals), Tríona Ni Dhomhnaill (harpsichord, bodhrán, vocals), Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (guitar, vocals).
Source and
other information		Green Linnet GLCD 3011, 1983. Reissue of Oct. 1975 Mulligan album. Notes to reissue by PJ Curtis.

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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
1022		 JigD Kesh Jig, The / The Kesh / Keash / The Kincora Jig / The Kincora / The Castle Jig / Little Boy Ted in the Hay / Kerrigan's / The Mountaineer's March (also in C) (compare The Mountaineers' March and The Spring Well included here from O'Neill books, compare 1st part with 1st part of Primrose Vale #1093, with 1st part of Sean Coughlan's Kesh #2554, and with 2nd part of #3663)
2 Tune Info
1851		 JigSl Swaggering Jig, The / Give Us a Drink of Water / Táim in Arréir dTigh an Óil / Oh! The Marriage / An Seanduine Coileáilte / The Silly Old Man / Girls Take Care How You Marry / Just at the Height of her Bloom / The Noggin of Cream / Tiggit along the Room / The Old Woman's Consort / Fáilte don Phíobaire / Welcome the Piper (2nd in set Rhubarb and Ginger on NNC) (compare The Drunken Gauger and The Munster Rake)
3 Tune Info
645		 Reel Flower of the Flock, The (mislabeled as Famous Ballymote on BB 4) (also in A; also doubled) (compare 1st part with 1st parts of both Bill Harte's #3612 and #3690)
4 Tune Info
600		 Reel Famous Ballymote / The Famous Ballymote / Pride of Ahamore / Péarla an Achaidh Mhóir (parts reversed in book CRE 2)
21 Tune Info
768		 Reel Green Groves of Erin, The / Garráin Ghlasa na hÉireann / The Groves of Erin / Groves of Erin / Erin's Groves / The Green Groves / Na Garráin Ghlasa / Down the Groves / The Green Fields of Erin / Green Fields of Erin / The Gay Fellow's Favourite / The Gayfellow's Favourite / The Good Fluter / The Castlecomer Lasses / Castlecomer Lasses / The Queenstown Lasses / The Heather Breeze / Miss Shaw's Reel / Mary in the Mall / Kelly's Fancy / Miss Stewart of Grantully / The Low Highland / Padaí Bhillí na Rópaí's Highland (2nd tune in set The Real Blackthorn Stick on MC) (also singled, also in A Mixolydian)
2 Tune Info
649		 Reel Flowers of Red Hill, The / Flowers of Redhill / Hills of Clogher / The Clogher Reel / The Clougher / The Pigeon on the Gate / Country Girl's Fortune / Dan McCarty's Fancy (compare Flowers of Redhill #2419 and Maid in the Cherry Tree #2184)
31 Tune Info
518		 Song Do You Love an Apple
41 Tune Info
1010		 Reel Julia Delaney / Julia Delaney's / Fahy's (mislabeled as The Old High Reel on JWh) (also in G)
51 Tune Info
1555		 Slide Patsy Geary's / Micky O'Callaghan's / Mickey Callaghan's / Rathawaun / Kerry Slide / Kimmel's No. 1 (also with parts reversed, also in Bb)
2 Tune Info
353		 JigD Coleman's Cross / Kimmel's No. 2 (also as slide?)
61 Tune Info
3173		 Song Is Trua Nach Bhfuil Mé in Éirinn (also as air)
71 Tune Info
1394		 Reel Navvy on the Line, The / The Navvy on the Shore / Navvy on the Shore / Paddy Jim Frank / Paddy Jim Frank's / The Pride of Cloontia / Péarla na gCluainte (also doubled)
2 Tune Info
1636		 Reel Rainy Day, The / A Rainy Day / An Lá Báistî (mislabeled as The Merry Blacksmith on SE 4) (wide range of settings are played today) (compare Peter Flanagan's #1572)
81 Tune Info
346		 JigD Tar Road to Sligo, The / Tar Road to Sligo / The Coach Road to Sligo / The High Road to Sligo / An Bóthar Mór go Sligeach / Coleman's / Fasten the Leg in Her / Lambert's (2nd tune in set Jackson's on MC and 2nd tune in set Tobin's Fancy on MC) (compare 1st part with the 1st part of The Races at Carrick in O'Neill, included here)
2 Tune Info
1496		 JigD Paddy Clancy's / Paddy Clancy's Jig / Peadar Clancy's / Ah! Surely / The Thrush in the Meadow / Coleman's Favourite / Biddy McGhee / Jackson's / Fond of the Ladies / A Health to the Ladies / An Irishman's Heart to the Ladies / To the Ladies / An Irishman's Love / The Frolicksome Dame / Sweet Biddy Daly / Buttermilk Mary / The Mountain Road / The Mountainy Boy / The Night of the Wedding / Over the Callows / The Móinín Jig / The Queenstown Jig / Pat Beirne's Favourite / O'Mahony's (also in G)
91 Tune Info
1224		 Reel Martin Wynne's / Martin Wynne's No. 1 / Martin Wynne's No 1 / The Burying Poteen / Martin Wynne's No. 2 / Martin Wynne's No 2 (1st in set Martin Wynne's on ApW)
2 Tune Info
1150		 Reel Longford Tinker, The / Tincéir an Longfoirt / The Longford Spinster / The Longford Reel / Jinnie Bang the Weaver / Jenny Dang the Weaver / The Furze Bush / The Concert Flute (also in A, also with 4 parts) (compare Jenny Dang the Weaver #922)
101 Tune Info
3174		 Song Pretty Peg
2 Tune Info
406		 Reel Craig's Pipes / Creig's Pipes / Cregg's Pipes / Creg's Pipes / Creggs Pipes / Kregg's Pipes / Gregg's Pipes / Greig's Pipes / Grieg's Pipes / Píopaí Greig / Connolly's Reel / Kerry Huntsman / The Kerry Huntsman / The Manchester (also with 4 or 5 parts)
111 Tune Info
821		 Air Hector the Hero
2 Tune Info
1079		 Strath Laird O'Drumblair Strathspey, The / The Laird of Drumblaire (also as hornpipe and as reel) (composed by J. Scott Skinner)
121 Tune Info
1964		 Reel Traveller, The / The Traveler / The Traveller Reel / The Traveler's Reel / Travelers / Walker Street / Carpenter's / Laborer's / Le Reel des Ouvriers (1st in set The Royal Spa on KCB 6; misidentified on RF as Miss Thornton's Reel / Coming through the Fields)
2 Tune Info
865		 Reel Humours of Lissadell, The / The Humors of Lissadell / Humours of Lissadel / The Humours of Lisadell / Humors of Lisadel / The Humours of Lisadel / Pléaráca Lios an Daill / Lads of Laois / The Musical Bridge
131 Tune Info
254		 JigSl Butterfly, The / Butterfly / The Red Admiral Butterfly (which is the traditional tune Skin the Peelers #3725 but with an additional 1st part attributed to Tommy Potts; nevertheless compare this 1st part with 1st part of The Butterfly #4736)
141 Tune Info
1719		 Reel Salamanca, The / The Salamanca Reel / Wild Salamanca / The Wild Salamanca / Salamango / Salamander / The Salamander / The Tartan Plaid / The Maigue's Tide / The Coronation Reel / The Coronation
2 Tune Info
125		 Reel Banshee, The / The Banshee Reel / McMahon's / McMahon's Reel / The McMahon Reel / Ríl Mhic Mhathúna / The Moyasta / Strone Johnny (composed by James McMahon aka John McMahon)
3 Tune Info
1716		 Reel Sailor's Bonnet, The / [misspelled as:] The Sailor'Bonnet / Sailor's Bonnet / Bairéad an Mháirnéalaigh / Seller's Bonnet (3rd in set The Salamanca and McMahon Reels on ESL 1)
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