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 | 2.8#2 | [MDhrty] Mickey Doherty. Garvan Hill - The Fiddle Music of Mickey Doherty. Traditional Fiddle Music from Donegal. Mickey Doherty (fiddle). |
~1974 | 6#1 | [KCB 3] [The Kilfenora Ceili Band]. [The Kilfenora Céilí Band]. |
~1994 | 3#1 | [JCt 1] John Carty and Brian McGrath. The Cat that Ate the Candle. John Carty (banjo, fiddle), Brian McGrath (piano, banjo). For this tune: (banjo). |
~1998 | 9#1 | [FFH] Far From Home. Tri. Turner Collins (accordion, whistle, vocals), Bob Newton (octave mandolin, mandocello, bodhrán, vocals), Daithi Wolfe (fiddle). For this tune: Turner (whistle). |
2000 | 7#2 | [MOR 1] Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh. The Nervous Man. Traditional Irish Music on Concertina. Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh (concertina). |
~2003 | 6#2 | [PShvln] Peter Shovlin. Beyond the Wee Strand. Peter Shovlin (fiddle). |
~2005 | 8#2 | [CTrsh] Ciaran Tourish. Down the Line. Ciaran Tourish (fiddle, whistle). |
~2009 | 1.34#1 | [VCbl] Vincent Campbell. The Purple Heather. Vincent Campbell (fiddle). |