Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for The Dangerous Reel by Mike and Mary Rafferty

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Artist NameMike and Mary Rafferty
Album TitleThe Dangerous Reel
MusiciansMike Rafferty (flute, whistle, pipes), Mary Rafferty (accordion, flute, whistle), with Gabriel Donohue (piano, guitar, bodhrán, bouzouki).
Source and
other information
Kells KM 9509, 1996. Copyright 1995 Barrel Publishing. Notes by Mike Rafferty and Mick Moloney.

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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
1680
JigD Road to Ballinakill, The / Port Patrick / Around Loughgill / Hoban's on 63rd (2nd part used as intro on Boh 4) (composed by Michael Rafferty)
2 Tune Info
127
Slide Barrel Rafferty's Jig
21 Tune Info
95
Reel Aughamore / Augamore (also in A Major) (composed by Ed Reavy)
2 Tune Info
1632
Reel Mick O'Connor's / O'Connor's / Rafferty's Mustache
31 Tune Info
1837
Reel Swallow's Nest, The / The Swallows Nest / The Stolen Reel (1st in set Paddy O'Brien's on MV) (composed by Paddy O'Brien)
2 Tune Info
618
Reel Feeding the Birds (2nd in set Paddy O'Brien's on MV) (also singled) (composed by Mike Rafferty)
41 Tune Info
539
JigD Down the Back Lane / The Humours of Ayle House / Boring the Leather / Tolladh an Leathair / The Cavan Brigade (compare distantly the printed settings included here titled The Kilfinane Jig / The Humors of Ayle House / Come with Me Now / When You Go Home / The Connachtman / The Connaughtman / The Shoemaker's Fancy)
2 Tune Info
2383
JigD Cat in the Corner, The / An Cat sa Chúinne / Cat in the Corner / Felix the Wrestler / O'Malley's / O'Mahony's Frolics / O'Mahony's / O'Mahoney's / O'Shaughnessy's / O'Shaugnessy's / Shaughnessy's Jig (2nd in set Ballykeale Manor on KCB 6; 2nd in set Johnny Leary's on NCrg 1) (various settings, also in A)
51 Tune Info
1593
Piece Planxty Fanny Powers / Fanny Powers / Planxty Fanny Power / Fanny Power / The Invocation (also in A, also as waltz) (composed by Turlough O'Carolan)
2 Tune Info
866
Reel Shores of Loughrea / The Shores of Lough Rea / The Shores of Lough Ree / The Shores of Lough Reagh / Humours of Loughrea / Tommy Whelan's / Whelan's Reel / Burke's Choice (2nd in set The Congress on FG 1; 2nd in set The Laurel Tree on BB 2; this set in turn was mislabeled on some reissues as Michael Gorman's) (also doubled)
3 Tune Info
904
Reel Jack Coughlan's Fancy / Jack Coughlan's / John Carty's (reversed parts on Trc and in book CRE 2; shifted by one beat on Dnu 3) (composed by Jack Coughlan)
61 Tune Info
3375
Hpipe Rick's / Rick's Rambles
2 Tune Info
257
Hpipe Byrne's Hornpipe / Cornphíopa Uí Bhroin / Bryant's Favourite / O'Briens / Tommy Hill's Favorite / Kimmel's (1st in set Tommy Hills' Favourite on MC) (also in G or A)
71 Tune Info
293
Reel Caucus Reel, The / The Caucus at Secaucus / The Caucus (also all parts singled) (composed by Jean Duval also spelled as Jean Duvall in 1991)
81 Tune Info
514
SgJig Dinny Delaney's / Dinny Delaney / Dinney Delaney's / Denis Delaney's / The Old Hag in the Kiln / The Old Hag at the Kiln / The Hag in the Kiln / An Chailleach sa Tornóig (also as slide or double jig, both included here) (2nd in set Old Hag You Have Killed Me on BB 2)
2 Tune Info
525
JigD Lark in the Morning, The / The Clare Lark / Dominick Rooney's / Dominic Rooney's Jig / Jig (1st in set TTS1 "Splice Jigs" on Sld 1; 2nd in set The Connemara Jigs on LitN)
91 Tune Info
1440
Reel O'Connell's Trip To Parliament / Trip to Parliament / Turas Uí Chonaill go dtí an Pharliamint / The Sporting Days of Easter / The Newmarried Couple / The Willow Tree / Bonnie Sally
2 Tune Info
1955
Reel Torn Jacket, The / Connie O'Connell's (as 3rd tune in The London Set on JK 3) (composed by Connie O'Connell)
101 Tune Info
1480
Reel Ormond Sound / Paddy O'Brien's / Saving the Hay (composed by Paddy O'Brien the elder, of Tipperary)
2 Tune Info
691
Reel Galtee Reel, The / Galtee Reel / The Galty / The Dangerous Reel
111 Tune Info
3242
Reel Like A Pinch / Aggie Whyte's
2 Tune Info
833
Reel High Reel, The / An Ríl Ard / High Reel / The High Reel No. 1 / Duffy the Dancer / The Gauger (3rd in set The Ritz on KCB 6)
121 Tune Info
839
JigD Seamus Cooley's / Hills of Larraga
2 Tune Info
1436
JigD O'Brien's Jig
131 Tune Info
986
Reel Johnny Allen's / Johnny Allen's Reel / Johnny Allen / Sean McGlynn's Fancy / Sean McGlynn's / An Bhean Tincéara / An Bhean Tinceare / Bean a' Tincéara / Ban Tinceiri / The Tinkerman's Wife (also singled, also with additional part between 1st and 2nd) (compare single jig Ask My Father #91)
2 Tune Info
962
Reel Gorman's / O'Gorman's / Joe Madden's Reel (compare Ragged Hank of Yarn #1650 and The Beauty Spot #135; compare 1st part with 1st part of Sporting Nell #1813)
141 Tune Info
648
Reel Flowers of Limerick, The / The Mills Are Grinding / Cronin's Favorite / The Bunch of Keys / The Boys of the Spuds / The Ewe with the Crooked Horn / Paddy on the Turnpike / Patty on the Turnpike / Paddy on the Handcar / The Last House in Connaught (2nd in set Ballinakill Reels on GCJR) (also in A Dorian, also in G Major, also with 2 more parts added in the form of variations on the 1st 2 parts) (compare The Bunch of Keys #245 which is very close except that it has a unique 3rd part, and compare The Mills Are Grinding #2378)
2 Tune Info
1293
Reel Milliner's Daughter, The / The Millner's Daughter / Iníon Bhean na Hataí / The Gardener's Daughter / Up Stairs in a Tent / Up the Stairs in a Tent (3rd in set Ballinakill Reels on GCJR; 3rd in set Drag Her Round the Road on Drv 4) (also singled, also in D or F)
151 Tune Info
1435
Hpipe Rover through the Bog, The / The Rover thru' the Bogs / An Fánaí fríd an Phortach / The Raven through the Bog / Dinnie O'Brien's / O'Brien's / Taylor's / The Mountain Bird
2 Tune Info
1643
Hpipe Madam If You Please / Girl of the Golden Tresses / The Rambles of Joe Burke (also in F)
161 Tune Info
308
Reel Chattering Magpie, The / Chatterin Magpie / An Mheaig Chabach / Gun in the Thatch
2 Tune Info
641
Reel Flax in Bloom, The / The Flaxen Bloom / The Lilly White (2nd part used as intro on KB UC) (also with a 3rd part, also as a fling)
171 Tune Info
1758
Reel Shaskeen, The / The Shaskeen Reel / An tSeascainn / The Shaskeen Clog (as hornpipe in book 1850; Ballinakill Shaskeen, included here on WU, differs in 2nd part) (compare as jig #4159)
2 Tune Info
1747
Reel Seán Reid's / Sean Reid's / Seán Reid's Reel / Sean Reid's Reel / Seán Reid's Fancy / Sean Reid's Fancy / John Reid's Favourite / The West Wind / West Wind / Gilbert Clancy's Reel / Gilbert Clancy's Favourite / Gilbert Clancy's / Gilibeart Mhac Fhlannchadha / The Peeler's Jacket / The Lonesome Reel (also singled) (2nd in set The Sister Reels on JnKlly; 3rd in set Friel's Kitchen on Ch 7)
181 Tune Info
383
Reel Conspiracy, The (composed by Joanie Madden)
2 Tune Info
895
Reel Invasion, The (composed by Joanie Madden)
191 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)
2 Tune Info
960
JigD Statia Donnelly's / Statia Donnellys / Statia Donnelly / Joe Burke's Jig / Finbar Dwyer's Favorite
201 Tune Info
372
Reel Concert Reel, The / Concert Reel / Ríl na Ceolchoirme / The Concert (also in B)
2 Tune Info
278
Reel Captain Rock's (compare Old Bush #1454)