Danny Ab's Slide - irishtune.info

Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?	Bars	4-bar phrase structure	Mode ?
Slide	32	AABB	G Major

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.

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Year Recorded	Track #Tune?	[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments).
1952	6#1	[KF] Padraig O'Keefe, Denis Murphy, Julia Clifford. Kerry Fiddles. Padraig O'Keefe (fiddle), Denis Murphy (fiddle), Julia Clifford (fiddle). For this tune: Murphy, Clifford.
1952	26#1	[RshMtn] The Rushy Mountain. Denis Murphy (fiddle), Julia Clifford (fiddle).
~1969	6#1	[SatG] Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford. The Star above the Garter. Fiddle music from Kerry, played by Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford. Denis Murphy (fiddle), Julia Clifford (fiddle).
~1999	6#2	[SN 2] Sliabh Notes. Gleanntán. Dónal Murphy (accordion), Tommy O'Sullivan (guitar, vocals), Matt Cranitch (fiddle).
2000	5#2	[NR] Charlie Piggott and Gerry Harrington. The New Road. Charlie Piggott (accordion), Gerry Harrington (fiddle). For this tune: Gerry Harrington (fiddle).

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In the above Discography, this tune is:

Played after	On Albums
Dan Murphy's Slide	SN 2
Barrack Hill	NR

Played before	On Albums
O'Keeffe's Slide	KF, RshMtn, SatG
Denis Enright's	SN 2
Star above the Garter	NR

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune considering only the indexed books, listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are musical matches to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

Listing of published transcriptions of this tune.
As tune #45 in [CRE 3] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 3. [available]
As tune #61 in volume 2 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
As tune #18#1 in volume 1 of [LPTW] Eithne Vallely. Learn to Play the Tin Whistle. [available]
On page 45 of [RM] Randy Miller and Jack Perron. Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. [available]
As slide #12 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
As tune #25 in [Cr] Matt Cranitch. The Irish Fiddle Book. [available]
As tune #176 in [JOL] Terry Moylan. Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra. Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border. [available]
As tune #62 in [DM 2] Dave Mallinson. 100 Enduring Irish Session Tunes. [available]
As slide #22 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]
On page 97 of [IFMCK] Drew Beisswenger. Irish Fiddle Music from Counties Cork and Kerry. [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 only the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1952

Tune ID#2095 (Danny Ab's Slide)

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Bibliography