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Roll Away The Reel World

By James Keane

Added by Grack .

  1. Crossing The Shannon
    Lad O’Beirne’s
    The Rough Road
  2. Blooming Meadows
    Paudeen O’Rafferty
  3. Maud Miller
    The Sailor’s Return
    Paddy Murphy’s Wife
  4. Master Crowley’s
    Crowley’s #2
  5. The Bride’s Favourite
    Tony Rowe’s
    Walsh’s
    Nora Crionna
  6. The Reel Of Mullinavat
    The Connaught Heifer
    The Boys Of Ballinahinch
  7. Father Kelly’s
    Green Fields Of America
  8. The Four Courts
    The Cuckoo
  9. The Tempest
    Sean Frank
  10. The Kesh
    Morrison’s
    Donnybrook Fair
  11. Gorman’s
    Jennie’s Wedding
    The Dark Haired Lass
  12. The Echo
  13. Father Ahearn’s
    O’Mahoney’s

Four comments

Not the button box player

This is not James Keane from Dublin. This is James (more commonly know as Jimmy) keane from the states and he plays piano accordion and plays it well too.

Yes - it is the button box player

This recording is definitely by James Keane, the BC box player originally from Dublin. It’s an old favourite LP of mine; Green Linnet SIF 1026 produced by Mick Moloney and copyright 1980.

The sleeve notes give a fascinating glimpse into the days (in the late 1940’s?) when talented school kids like James playing irish traditional music in Dublin would be beaten up for being ‘different’.

Re: Roll Away The Reel World

The first jig on track #2 is given the title “The Blooming Meadows” here, but I know it as “The High Part of the Road”:
https://thesession.org/tunes/183

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