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). |
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1949 | 1.7#2 | [MDhrty] Mickey Doherty. Garvan Hill - The Fiddle Music of Mickey Doherty. Traditional Fiddle Music from Donegal. Mickey Doherty (fiddle). |
~1949 | 6#2 (2:04) | [ICTM] Ireland. Irlande. Mickey Doherty (fiddle). |
1987 | 15#2 | [DMeehan] Danny Meehan. Navvy on the Shore. Danny Meehan (fiddle). |
1991 | 7#1 | [A HS] Altan. Harvest Storm. Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (fiddle, vocals), Frankie Kennedy (flute, whistle, vocals), Paul O'Shaughnessy (fiddle), Ciaran Tourish (fiddle, whistle, vocals), Mark Kelly (guitar, vocals), Ciaran Curran (bouzouki, bouzouki-guitar). |
1991 | 12#1 | [A FTY] Altan. The First Ten Years 1986/1995. see A HS. |
1995 | 24#2 | [FMD 1] The Fiddle Music of Donegal. Volume One. Paul O'Shaughnessy (fiddle). |
~2005 | 1.13#1 | [VCbl] Vincent Campbell. The Purple Heather. Vincent Campbell (fiddle). |