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.
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below to hear the first 12 seconds.| Year Recorded |
Track #Tune? |
[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments). |
|---|---|---|
| ~1975 | 15#1 | [SK 1] Seán Keane. Gusty's Frolicks. Seán Keane (fiddle). |
| ~1978 | 8#2 | [LC 1] Liz Carroll. A Friend Indeed. Liz Carroll (fiddle). |
| 1979 | 2#2 | [FVlly 1] Fintan Vallely. Traditional Irish Flute Music. Fintan Vallely (flute). |
| ~1991 | 1#1 (0:53) | [THayes] Tommy Hayes. An Rás. Tommy Hayes (bodhrán, percussion). For this tune: 1st time Kieran Hanrahan (mandolin), then with Alisdair Fraser (fiddle). |
| ~1994 | 15#3 | [MMcNmr 1] Mary MacNamara. Traditional Music from East Clare. Mary MacNamara (concertina). For this tune: with PJ Hayes (fiddle), Martin Hayes (fiddle). |
| ~1996 | 12#2 | [SBw] Folan and Davey. Skin and Bow. Declan Folan (fiddle), Junior Davey (bodhrán). |
| ~1998 | 11#1 | [MMR 2] Mike and Mary Rafferty. The Old Fireside Music. Mike Rafferty (flute, pipes), Mary Rafferty (accordion, whistle). For this tune: Mary (whistle). |
| 2001 | 13#2 | [A BI] Altan. Blue Idol. Not identified in liner notes. [Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (fiddle, vocals), Ciaran Tourish (fiddle, whistle), Dermot Byrne (accordion), Ciaran Curran (bouzouki), Mark Kelly (guitar), Dáithi Sproule (guitar)]. |
| ~2001 | 3#1 | [Lu 3] Lúnasa. The Merry Sisters of Fate. Kevin Crawford (flute, whistle), Seán Smyth (fiddle, whistle), Cillian Vallely (pipes, whistle), Donogh Hennessy (guitar, whistle), Trevor Hutchinson (double bass). For this tune: 1st time Seán Smyth (fiddle). |
| ~2001 | 5#1 | [Lu 7] Lúnasa. The Story So Far .... Kevin Crawford (flute, whistle, bodhran), Sean Smyth (fiddle, whistle), Cillian Vallely (pipes, whistle), Mike McGoldrick (flute, pipes), John McSherry (pipes), Donogh Hennessy (guitar), Trevor Hutchinson (double bass, cello), Paul Meehan (guitar). For this tune: 1st time Seán Smyth (fiddle). |
| ~2005 | 1.25#1 | [VCbl] Vincent Campbell. The Purple Heather. Vincent Campbell (fiddle). |
| ~2008 | 2#3 | [BMcGrth] Brian McGrath. Pure Banjo. Brian McGrath (banjo, guitar, keyboards). |
| 2011 | 6#3 | [HDvls 2] The House Devils. Crossing the Ocean. Matt Fahey (vocals, guitar, bouzouki, resonator guitar), Mat Walklate (harmonica, flute, vocals, whistle, pipes), Andrew Dinan (fiddle), Anthony Haller (double bass). |
