Yvan’s sixty-four comments

(I stripped the short titles and parenthesis from the tracklist, enabling links to the tunes.) more…

I transcribed it from the playing of Liz Doherty on her album “Last Orders”. more…

It is an early setting of Jimmy O’Brien’s Jig reported at https://thesession.org/tunes/12210 more…

Neither of them, Máirtín O’Connor composed it. It can also be found on ‘The Road West’, 13rd track to the left. https://thesession.org/recordings/1519 more…

Played as a slow reel in there: https://soundcloud.com/ergodos/c-l-na-ngabhar-ri-l-an-raiti-n more…

It is the tune recorded by Malachy Bourke on ‘Draw the Bow’. He calls it ‘The Old Pinch of Snuff’ and plays it in G. I refer to the the initial setting by Dr. Dow and the close settings by joe fidkid and JACKB. more…

According to Jimmy Campbell (in The Fiddle Music of Donegal), this title was often used. more…

I learned it from the playing of Ruadhraí O’Kane on the recording “Live at Maddens”. more…

Yes, and only in the pub I guess, see http://mulligans.nl/cds.php more…

Tracks 2 and 16 are the other way around on the back of the booklet. more…