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The Bunch Of Keys: The Complete Recordings Of Johnny Doran

By Johnny Doran


  1. Colonel Fraser
    My Love Is In America
    Rakish Paddy
  2. Coppers And Brass
    The Rambling Pitchfork
  3. An Chúileann
  4. The Tarbolton
    The Fermoy Lasses
  5. The Job Of Journeywork
  6. The Steampacket
  7. The Sweep’s
    The Harvest Home
    The High Level
  8. Sliabh Na mBan
  9. The Blackbird
  10. The Bunch Of Keys
    Rakish Paddy
    The Bunch Of Keys

Two comments

This is a single cassette not ‘re-mastered’, raw, the first release by ‘Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann’, CBÉ 001. For a lot more hard work, remastering, see the ‘comments’ for this following entry, a clearer result is:

“The Master Pipers, Volume 1: Johnny Doran”
https://thesession.org/recordings/1096

Johnny Doran - - -

http://web.telia.com/~u46103557/jdoran.html

http://www.iol.ie/~ronolan/doran.html

These are the only recordings ever made of Johnny Doran’s inspirational piping. He was playing a Leo Rowsome set in the key of D. Traveler and piper, his music was recorded in 1947 onto 9 acetate discs by ’The Irish Folkore Commission. This was just a week before a wall collapsed onto his small caravan (North America=trailer) killing him. Paddy Keenan and Davey Spillane are just two of many well known and talented pipers who credit Johnny Doran as a major influence on their playing.

“The Master Pipers Series, Volume 1: Johnny Doran” (Digitally remastered in 2002)
NPU, Na Píobairí Uilleann: NPUCD 011
1 CD, mono, 48 minutes
- including John Kelly Senior accompanying him on fiddle for one set of reels: Tarbolton / The Fermoy lasses.
This remastered 2002 CD also includes excellent commentary by Jackie Small, Pat Mitchell & Harry Bradshaw…
https://thesession.org/recordings/1096