Crystal Clear

A fiddler’s delight - unaccompanied fiddle ringing perfectly without enhancement or backup instrumentation. There’s a lot of Scottish / Cape Breton tunes interwoven with Irish and Jerry’s own compositions, to great effect. Worth a listen, no matter what your instrument.

C: Jerry Holland = 18 out of 62 tunes:

1. ) jigs: “The Dandy” (JH1) / ~ / “Lakeview Drive” (JH2)
4. ) jigs: “Katie Ann Cameron” (JH2) / “Stan Chapman’s Jig” (JH1) / ~
7. ) strathspeys & reels: ~ / ~ / “John Allen Cameron’s Reel” (JH1) / “Wild Alf McConnell” (JH2)
10. ) jigs: “January 16th” (JH2) / ~ / “Rannie MacLellan” (JH2)
11. ) slow air, strathspeys & reels: ~ / ~ / ~ / “The Musical Chisholm Household” (JH2) / “House Hunting” (JH2)
12. ) jigs: “Larry Reynolds’ Fancy” (JH2) / ~ / ~
13. ) strathspey & reels: ~ / “Dougie and Johnny” (JH2) / “The Southwest Fiddler” (JH2)
16. ) waltz: “Margaret and Archie Neil” (JH2)
18. ) jigs: “Falcon Bigney” (JH2) / “Kinnon Beaton” (JH2) / ~
19. ) strathspey & reels: ~ / ~ / “Johnena’s Fine Mincemeat Pie” (JH2)
20. ) reels: “Meeting Gigi” (JH2) / ~

Other known composers = 26 out of 62 tunes:

C: Angus Fitchet
2. ) strathspeys & reels: “Glasgow Strathspey and Reel Society” (JH2) / ~ / ~ / ~ / ~

C: Tom Anderson
2. ) strathspeys & reels: ~ / ~ / “Pottinger’s” (JH2) / ~ / ~

C: Eddie Poirier
3. ) hornpipes: “The First of Spring” (JH2) / ~

C: Paddy O’Brien
3. ) hornpipes: ~ / “Cooley’s Hornpipe” (JH2)

C: Tommy Sullivan
4. ) jigs: ~ / ~ / “Father Hanley’s Jig” (JH2)

C: Paul Cranford
5. ) air: “A Walk Through the Ruins” (LC)
19. ) strathspey & reels: ~ / “Fin Fever” (LC) / ~

C: Brendan Mulvihill
8. ) hornpipe & reel: “Sean Maguire’s Style” (JH1) / ~

C: Billy McComiskey
8. ) hornpipe & reel: ~ / “The Palm Tree” (JH2)

C: Dan R. MacDonald
9. ) strathspeys & reels: ~ / ~ / ~ / “Heather Hill” (HH / WF) / ~

C: Howie MacDonald
10. ) jigs: ~ / “Francis Aucoin” (JH2) / ~

C: Scott Skinner
11. ) slow air, strathspeys & reels: “The Laird of Bermerside” (JH2) / ~ / “Sandy Cameron’s” (JH2) / ~ / ~
13. ) strathspey & reels: “Dr. Shaw” (JH2) / ~ / ~
14. ) march, strathspey & reels: ~ / “Tom Dey” (JH2) / ~ / ~
17. ) marching air & reels: ~ / ~ / “Charlie Hardie” (WF)

C: David Greenberg
12. ) jigs: ~ / “Francis Xavier Kennedy MacDonald” (JH2) / ~
19. ) strathspey & reels: “Merry Miss Mary B.” (JH2) / ~ / ~

C: John MacLean
14. ) march, strathspey & reels: “Moladh Maureen Nic Coinnich” (JH2) / ~ / ~ / ~

C: Gordon MacLean
14. ) march, strathspey & reels: ~ / ~ / “The Mortgage Burn” (LC) / ~

C: John Morris Rankin
14. ) march, strathspey & reels: ~ / ~ / ~ / “Kentucky Mandolin” (JH2)

C: Doug MacPhee
15. ) jigs: “A.J. and Jeanette Beaton’s” (JH2) / ~ / “The Piano Summit” (JH2)

C: Robert Stubbert
15. ) jigs: ~ / “The Bees Knees” (BS) / ~

C: Peter Milne
17. ) marching air & reels: “J.O. Forbes of Corse” (WF) / ~ / ~

C: Scott MacMillan
20. ) reels: ~ / “Minnie Adams’ House” (JH2)


Compositions in print:

JH1 - “Jerry Holland’s Collection of Fiddle Tunes”
JH2 - “Jerry Holland: The Second Collection”
BS - “Brenda Stubbert’s Collection of Fiddle Tunes”
LC - “The Lighthouse Collection”
WF - “Winston Fitzgerald: A Collection of Fiddle Tunes”
HH - “The Heather Hill Collection: The Music of Dan R. MacDonald”

Cranford Publications - http://www.cranfordpub.com/

“unaccompanied fiddle ringing perfectly without enhancement or backup instrumentation” ~ as drone said 7 years ago ~ a pleasure, ‘crystal clear’…