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Album Details for The More That's Said the Less the Better by Craobh Rua

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Artist NameCraobh Rua
Album TitleThe More That's Said the Less the Better
MusiciansMark Donnelly (pipes, whistle), Michael Cassidy (fiddle), Brian Connolly (banjo, mandolin, bodhrán), Jim Byrne (guitar, mandola, vocals).
Source and
other information		Klub CDLDL 1215, 1992. Recorded in Belfast.

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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
852		 Reel Humours of Ballyconnell, The / Humours of Ballyconnell / The Humors of Ballyconnell / Humours of Ballyconnel / Humours of Ballyconell / The Humours of Ballyconnelly / Captain Rock / Captain Rock's / O'Neill's Maggot (also with 3 extra parts by Billy McComiskey)
2 Tune Info
364		 Reel Come West Along the Road / Arboe (also in A) (compare Over the Moor to Peggy #1491)
3 Tune Info
1055		 Reel Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Races / The High Road to Linton / Highway to Linton / Jenny's Gone to Linton / The Leinster Highroad (also in A with 2 more parts) (compare reversed parts to fling/single jig #2643)
4 Tune Info
638		 Reel Five-Mile Chase, The / The Five Mile Chase / The Four-Hand Reel / The Four Hand Reel / Lamb on the Mountain / The Wild Fire Chase / Ballyvaughan / The Ballyvaughan / Corporal Casey / Corporal Casey's Favourite / Miss Gardner / Lady Gardner's Troops / Lady Gardener's Reel / The Yellowhaired Laddie / The Yellow-haired Laddie / Parnell's Reel (also in A)
21 Tune Info
273		 Song Campbell's Mill
31 Tune Info
2093		 Air Young Catherine / As I Went Forth to View the Plain (also in G) (composed by Turlough O'Carolan)
41 Tune Info
1419		 JigD Newport Lass, The / Newport Lass / The Newport Lasses / Gearrchaile Bhaile Uí bhFiacháin / A Trip to Athlone / The Trip to Athlone / Trip to Athlone / O'Brien's Fancy (during and after song Galway Races on Ch BIH; 2nd in set Micho Russell's on NNC) (for dance The Trip to Athlone)
2 Tune Info
1838		 JigD Stone in the Field, The / The Green Fields of America / The Maid in the Meadow / An Bhruinneall sa Mhóinéar / Crags of Burren / Jimmy O'Brien's Jig / Copey's Jig (in set Buttermilk Mary on FBros; 1st in set The Belburry Hills on ESL 1, which in turn is mislabeled as Miss McClouds Reels / Rolling the Rye Grass; 2nd in set The Piper's Chair on GCJR; 3rd in set Crags of the Burren on TCB 4) (also in A, also with a 3rd part) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Jimmy O'Brien's Jig #774 and with 1st part of reel #775) (composed by Walker Jackson)
3 Tune Info
1337		 JigD Mooncoin Jig, The (3rd in The Kinvara Set on MV) (compare Welcome Home Gráinne #2043)
51 Tune Info
958		 Song Jock O'Hazeldean (composed by Walter Scott)
61 Tune Info
1806		 Reel Spey in Spate, The / John Stewart's (2nd in set Sean McGuire's on DD HR) (composed by James Scott Skinner)
2 Tune Info
2379		 Reel Maids of Castlebar, The / Maids of Castlebar / The Maid of Castlebar / Gearrchailiú Chaisleán an Bharraigh / The Fall of Ballisodare (1st in set Reels from the 1920's on FG 3) (compare 1st part with 1st part of McFarley's Reel #1192)
3 Tune Info
74		 Reel Andy Fenwick's Ferret (composed by Gordon Duncan)
4 Tune Info
791		 Reel Turnpike, The / Paddy on the Turnpike / The Halfway House / Tommy Peoples' / John Lardiner's (3rd in set Tripping Down the Stairs on Arc 1; 1st in set Ríleanna Tommy Peoples' on CA; 3rd in set San Antonio on NNC) (also in G, also as hornpipe)
71 Tune Info
1164		 Air Loughnashade (composed by Craobh Rua)
2 Tune Info
692		 Hpipe Galway Bay / Galway Bay Hornpipe (1st in set The Drunken Sailor on TPtts)
3 Tune Info
2050		 Hpipe Western, The / The Western Hornpipe / Mountain Stream / The Athlone / The Tara Brooch / Bobby Gardiner's
81 Tune Info
1395		 Song Neansaí Mhíle Grá
91 Tune Info
349		 JigD Cobbler, The / Dan the Cobbler / Jerry's Beaver Hat (very similar to Kitty's Rambles #1059)
2 Tune Info
3284		 JigD Jenny's Wedding / The Man in the Moon (compare 1st part with 1st part of Cornelius Curtin's Big Balloon #3898 and with 1st part of Tomaisín a' Rí #2553)
3 Tune Info
1371		 JigD Munster Bacon (compare 1st part with 1st part of #3042)
4 Tune Info
1345		 Reel Morse Avenue / John Whelan's Reel (composed by Liz Carroll)
101 Tune Info
400		 Song Cotton Mill Song, The
111 Tune Info
375		 Reel Prohibition, The (1st in set The Conglomeration on CR 1) (also singled, also in G) (composed by Lad O Beirne [Lad O'Beirne])
2 Tune Info
385		 Reel Contradiction, The / Contradiction Reel / Miss Gunning's Fancy (2nd in set The Conglomeration on CR 1) (compare The Baker #100 and Old Peter Street #2491)
3 Tune Info
1653		 Reel Reconciliation, The / Humphrey's Reel / Humphrey's Hornpipe / The Olive Branch / The Contradiction (3rd in set The Conglomeration on CR 1; for dance The Sixteen Hand Reel in book MM) (also as hornpipe)
4 Tune Info
3285		 Reel Convenience Reel, The / The Convenience / The Boys of Sligo / The D Reel / The Knock on the Door / McDonagh's / Mark McLoughlin's (4th in set The Conglomeration on CR 1; 1st part played last on SEgn 1 and in book DM 1) (composed by Olcan Masterson)
5 Tune Info
208		 Reel Boys of Malin, The / Buachaillí Mhálanna (5th in set The Conglomeration on CR 1) (also in Dorian)
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