Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers by Solas

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Artist NameSolas
Album TitleSunny Spells and Scattered Showers
MusiciansKaran Casey (vocals), John Doyle (guitar, mandocello, vocals), Seamus Egan (flute, banjo, whistle, mandolin, guitar, bodhrán, percussion), Winifred Horan (fiddle), John Williams (accordion, concertina), with John Anthony (bodhrán, percussion).
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Shanachie 78010, 1997. Printed lyrics and translations included for all songs. Released on 20 May 1997. Not indexed here: track 8 ("Song of the Kelpie"), track 11 ("Vanished Like the Snow").

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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
4957
Song Wind that Shakes the Barley, The
21 Tune Info
4958
Reel Big Reel of Ballynacally, The
2 Tune Info
4959
Reel High Hill, The (composed by Ed Reavy)
3 Tune Info
1683
Reel Road to Lisdoonvarna, The / The Galway Girls / March of the Tribes to Galway / All the Way to Galway / Sarsfield March / Flash Away the Pressing Gang / Slash Away the Pressing Gang (3rd in set Michael Gorman's on BB 2; this set in turn was mislabeled on some reissues as The Laurel Tree) (also in A, also with reversed parts) (compare 2nd part with 2nd part of polka The Kerry Cow #2830)
31 Tune Info
2350
Song Aililiú na Gamhna / Aililiu na Gamhna
41 Tune Info
2412
JigD Tom Busby's
2 Tune Info
4960
JigD James O'Byrne's (compare 1st part with 1st part of Pathway to the Well #1553)
3 Tune Info
2825
SgJig Four Posts of the Bed, The
51 Tune Info
73
Reel Paddy Taylor's / McCabe's Reel / Anderson's Reel / Lady Gordon (also in C, also with 2nd and 3rd parts in reverse order) (composed by Paddy Taylor (and possibly) Martin Wynne(?))
2 Tune Info
1252
Reel McFadden's Handsome Daughter / McFaddens Handsome Daughter / Iníon Dhathúil Mhic Pháidín / McFaddens (3rd in set Road to Garrison on MSHtn 1) (also without 3rd part) (compare 1st 2 parts distantly with Kit O'Connor's #3902)
3 Tune Info
3594
Hpipe Irish American / The Narrowback (also as reel)
4 Tune Info
4961
Reel Frank's Reel (composed by John McCusker)
5 Tune Info
4962
Reel Esther's Reel
61 Tune Info
4963
Song Unquiet Grave, The
71 Tune Info
4964
Song Maid on the Shore
91 Tune Info
4965
JigD Mom's Jig (composed by Jerry Holland)
2 Tune Info
4966
JigD Bill Nicholson's 67th (composed by Otis Tomas)
101 Tune Info
1617
Fling Primrose Lass, The / Primrose Lass / The Primrose Girl / The Primrose Lassy / Gearrchaile na Samhaircíní / The Primrose Lasses / St. Patrick's Night / The Kilworth Lasses / The Maids / The Brown-Eyed Girl / The Brown Eyed Girl (also as reel, included here)
2 Tune Info
2683
Reel Molly from Longford / Patsy Touhey's [Patsy Tuohey's] (also as slide on CaBrdg) (compare #1556)
3 Tune Info
4967
Reel Four Kisses, The
121 Tune Info
1038
BDnce Kilnamona Barn Dance, The / Kilnamona Barndance / Barndance (also in F)
2 Tune Info
3431
Reel Pay the Girl Her Fourpence / Give the Girl Her Fourpence / Ríl na Drithleog (also 2nd part singled)
3 Tune Info
2993
Reel My Maryanne / My Maryann / My Mary Anne / My Mary-Anne / The Boys of Galway (also singled)
131 Tune Info
4968
Song Adieu Lovely Nancy