Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 1582 (Pigtown)

RhythmBarsMode
Single reel16G Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Pigtown
 about these two bars

These two bars are the start of my transcription of how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording Ch 2 (details in the Discography below).

Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Pigtown / Pigtown Fling / Pig Town Fling / Stoney Point / Wild Horses / Wild Horses at Stoney Point / Wild Horse / Kelton's / Warm Stuff (also as reel) (compare American tune In the Woodpile / The Cotton Patch / Nigger in the Woodpile included here in book FF)
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc. They are listed in order of when they were recorded.

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
19699#1[Ch 2] The Chieftains. 2. Michael Tubridy (flute, concertina, whistle), Seán Potts (whistle), Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Martin Fay (fiddle), Peadar Mercier (bodhrán, bones), Seán Keane (fiddle).View album details
~19921#2[MMM] various. Music at Matt Molloy's. View album details

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune under any title whatsoever – considering only the indexed books – listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are very similar to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

As tune #7 in volume 2 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
On page 140 of [FF] David Brody. The Fiddler's Fakebook. [available]
On pages 267-268 of [FF] David Brody. The Fiddler's Fakebook. [available]
On page 85 of [F] S. C. Hamilton. The Irish Flute Player's Handbook.
As tune #20 in [DM 4] Dave Mallinson. 100 Vital Irish Session Tunes. [available]

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1969
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