Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for I Will If I Can by John Carty

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Artist NameJohn Carty
Album TitleI Will If I Can
MusiciansJohn Carty (banjo, guitar, fiddle), with Alec Finn (bouzouki, guitar), Brian McGrath (piano, guitar), Johnny McDonagh (bodhrán).
Source and
other information		Racket Records RR005, 2005. Recorded in Kinvara, Co. Galway.

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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
1833		 Reel Steampacket, The / The Steam Packet / Steam Packet / The Steam-Packet / An Bád Gaile / The Steam Boat / The Mountain Lark / The Mountain Lark No. 2 / Fuiseog an tSléibhe / New Tobacco / The Gauger / An Colamóir Súgach / An Colamoir Sugach / An Colamór Sugach / Last House in Connaught / The Connacht Rangers / Lady O'Brien's Reel / Frieze Kneebreeches / The Father Henebry's Reel / O'Connell's Reel (follows The Banks of the Suir on GP; in set Ballinakill Reels on GCJR; 2nd in set Midsummer's Night on Drv 5) (also in Mixolydian) (compare Mountain Lark #2223)
2 Tune Info
1050		 Reel Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel / Póg an Ghearrchaile ar Chúl an Bhairille / The Maid behind the Barrel / Kiss the Maid behind the Barn / The Maid behind the Bar / An Gearrchaile taobh thiar den Bheár / The Bruisus / Clonmel Lasses (also doubled, also with parts in different orders and with up to 6 parts) (compare distantly Trim the Velvet #1967 and compare 2nd part with 2nd part of Music in the Forge #1382)
21 Tune Info
1373		 JigD Munster Buttermilk, The / The Sports of Multyfarnham / Siamsa Mhuilte Farannáin / Carty's (1st in set The Kilfenora Set on JCt 5) (also in G) (compare #137)
2 Tune Info
1027		 Slide Kilfenora Jig / The Old Favourite / The Old Favorite / Miko Doyle's / Sleamhnán Uí Dhúill (4th in set Oh! The Breeches Full of Stitches on Ch 7; 1st in set The Kilfenora Sexy Jig on 4MD 2; 2nd in set Sliabh Luachra Slides on ACB 1; 2nd in set The Kilfenora Set on JCt 5) (also as double jig)
3 Tune Info
955		 JigD Jimmy Ward's / Jimmy Wards J. G. / Jimmy Wards / Jimmy Ward's Fancy / Port Shéamuis Mhic a Bháird / Ward's Favourite / Ward's Jig / Jim Ward's / Jim Ward's Jig / Jim Wards / The Clare Jig / Clare / Farrell's Fancy (3rd in set The Kilfenora Set on JCt 5; 2nd in set Aoibhneas on Lu 3) (composed by Jimmy Ward?)
4 Tune Info
342		 JigD I Will If I Can / The Boys from the West / Land of the West / Up and Away / Up and Awa / Judes Farewell / Clogher Cross / Port Jack Durcan (4th in set The Kilfenora Set on JCt 5; 2nd in set Crags of the Burren on TCB 4) (compare When the Cock Crows It Is Day #882)
31 Tune Info
1626		 Hpipe Queen of the West, The / Queen of the West (mislabeled as Retour des Hirondelles and Tune for a Found Harmonium on SS 1) (also in F)
2 Tune Info
330		 Hpipe City of Savannah / The City of Savannah / Cathair Savannah (composed by Frank Livingston)
41 Tune Info
1813		 Reel Sporting Nell / Sporting Nellie / Gorman's / Gorman's Reel / Johnny Gorman's / Geary's Reel (also in A) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Gorman's #962)
2 Tune Info
1937		 Reel Matt Peoples / Matt Peoples' / Matt Peoples' Reel / Tommy Peoples' / Lady Gordon's Reel (2nd in set Matt Peoples on MBP) (compare 1st part with 1st part of All Round the Room #4489)
51 Tune Info
4800		 JigD Kimmel's
2 Tune Info
3968		 JigD Clare Shout, The (composed by Bobby Gardiner)
61 Tune Info
693		 Hpipe Galway Hornpipe, The / Galway Hornpipe / The Galway / Dan Lowry's Hornpipe / McDermott's (1st in set McDermott's on MC and on DH 3; 1st in set Galway Hornpipe on JCt 5)
2 Tune Info
1248		 Hpipe McDermott's / McDermott's Hornpipe / Cornphíopa Mhic Dhiarmada / The Flowers of Antrim / The Sligo Fancy / Dunn's Hornpipe / The Newry Hornpipe / The Marquis of Lorne (2nd in set McDermott's on MC and on DH 3; 2nd in set Galway Hornpipe on JCt 5) (also in G)
3 Tune Info
606		 Reel Farewell to Erin / Farewell to Ireland / Slán le hÉirinn / The Maid in the Cherry Tree / Maid in the Cherry Tree/ Maid in a Cherry Tree / The Flying Column / Austin Tierney's (1st in set The Savoy on KCB 6) (also with parts reversed, also in E) (compare The London Lasses #1147)
71 Tune Info
3121		 JigD Paddy from Portlaw / The Thatched Cabin / An Cában Ceann Tuí / Jackson's Drum / Brian Rooney's (1st in set Abbeyfeale Set on Drv 5; 1st in set Brian Rooney's on JCt 5)
2 Tune Info
3332		 JigD Whistler at the Wake, The / Whistler at the Wake / The Scenic Road / Haunted House (2nd in set Brian Rooney's on JCt 5) (composed by Vincent Broderick)
3 Tune Info
1239		 Reel Road to Garrison / Maurice Lennon's / The Godfather Reel / The Godfather (3rd in set Brian Rooney's on JCt 5) (the composer's title is The Road to Garrison according to an e-mail to me from his agent Sandra Tucker, 3 July 2006) (composed by Maurice Lennon)
81 Tune Info
4801		 BDnce Warbling Robin, The (composed by Marcus Hernon)
91 Tune Info
391		 Reel Cooley's Reel / Joe Cooley's Reel / Joe Cooley's / Cooleys / Luttrell's Pass / The Tulla Reel / Ríl na Tulaí (for 7th figure of Taille Mhara Jig Set on MISD 7) (also in D Minor; also with a 3rd part on MGm, where this tune is presented as a Michael Gorman composition named Put the Cake in the Dresser) (composed by Joe Mills?)
2 Tune Info
1184		 Reel Maid behind the Bar, The / The Barmaid / The Green Mountain / Judy's Reel / The Judy Reel / Little Judy / Haymaker (2nd in set Kitty O'Shea on TC; for 5th figure of Victoria Jig Set on MISD 6) (compare with 3rd part of French-Canadian reel Snoring Mrs. Gobeil / La Ronfleuse Gobeil in FF, included here, and compare The Green Mountain #2336)
101 Tune Info
1437		 Piece O'Carolan's Concerto / Carolan's Concerto / Comhsheinm Uí Chearbhalláin / Mrs. Power / Mrs Power / Mrs. Poer / Mrs Poer (composed by Turlough O'Carolan)
2 Tune Info
3571		 Piece O'Carolan's Draught / Carolan's Draught / O'Carolan's Draft / Bolgam Chearbhalláin (also in C) (composed by Turlough O'Carolan)
111 Tune Info
2163		 Reel Daisy Field, The / Father Kelly's (1st in set Paddy Kelly's Reels on JB 3) (also singled, also only 2nd part doubled, also Major) (composed by Paddy Kelly)
2 Tune Info
1357		 Reel Moving Cloud, The / Moving Cloud / The Moving Clouds / An Néal faoi Shiúl (also in F or D; also without 3rd part) (composed by Neil O'Boyle aka Neilidh Boyle in 1942, also with a different third part possibly by Martin Mulhaire)
121 Tune Info
2153		 Hpipe Eleanor Neary's (1st in set De Dannan's on JCt 5) (composed by Eleanor Neary)
2 Tune Info
1291		 Reel Miller of Drohan, The / The Miller of Draughin / The Miller of Drawen / The Humours of Kinvara (mislabeled on BBow 2 as The Man from Bundoran; 2nd in set De Dannan's on JCt 5) (also in F#, also singled, also with parts reversed)
131 Tune Info
4802		 March Wreck of the '99, The (1st in set James Morrison's on JCt 5, where this is described as a two-step)
2 Tune Info
4803		 March Dem Golden Slippers (2nd in set James Morrison's on JCt 5, where this is described as a two-step)
3 Tune Info
4804		 March Goodbye Mick, Goodbye Pat (3rd in set James Morrison's on JCt 5, where this is described as a two-step)
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