Music From Sliabh Luachra

Topic 12TS358
Released on CD by Ossian: OSSCD 30
& Green Linnet: GLCD3065

- a compilation of tracks from the six albums in the Topic series “Music from Sliabh Luachra volumes 1-6”…
https://thesession.org/recordings/1274

Classic Music from Sliabh Luachra 1957-77"
This is a compilation that includes tracks from this album as well as the other five in the Topic series “Music from Sliabh Luachra, Volumes 1-6”…

https://thesession.org/recordings/1274

1.) “Music from Sliabh Luachra Volume 1: Kerry Fiddles”
Padraig O’Keefe with Denis & Julia (Clifford) Murphy
Topic 12T 309 / TSCD309 - Ossian OSSCD10
https://thesession.org/recordings/519

2.) “Music from Sliabh Luachra Volume 2: The Star of Munster Trio”
Julia (fiddle), John (piano accordion) & Billy Clifford (flute)
Topic 12TS310 - Ossian 45
https://thesession.org/recordings/1427

3.) “Music from Sliabh Luachra Volume 3: The Humours of Lisheen”
John (piano accordion) & Julia Clifford (fiddle)
Topic 12TS311 - Ossian OSS 14
https://thesession.org/recordings/1433

4.) "Music from Sliabh Luachra Volume 4:
Irish Traditional Flute Solos and Band Music from Kerry and Tipperary"
Billy Clifford (flute), et. al.
Topic 12TS312 - Ossian OSS 11
https://thesession.org/recordings/1286

5.) "Music from Sliabh Luachra Volume 5: Johnny O’Leary -
Music for the Set"
Recordings made 1976-77 - 18 tracks - Topic /Ossian OSSCD 25
https://thesession.org/recordings/663

6.) ~ the listing here…Jackie Daly…

“Padraig O’Keefe: The Sliabh Luachra Fiddle Master”
https://thesession.org/recordings/738

“Denis Murphy: Music from Sliabh Luachra”
https://thesession.org/recordings/164

“The Star Above the Garter”
Denis (fiddle) & Julia Murphy/Clifford (fiddle)
https://thesession.org/recordings/1073

“Ceol As Sliabh Luachra”
Julia (fiddle) & Billy (flute) Clifford
https://thesession.org/recordings/1291

“An Calmfhear/The Trooper” - Johnny O’Leary"
https://thesession.org/recordings/1282
17 tracks - Gael Linn CEFC 132 / CEFCD 132, 1989

“Johnny O’Leary of Sliabh Luachra: Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border”
Craft Recordings, Dublin - CRCS01
28 tracks - Craft Recordings - (CD) CRCD01, 1995
https://thesession.org/recordings/1284

“Denis Doody Plays Kerry Music”
Mulligan - LUN 019, 1978
https://thesession.org/recordings/1309

“Traditional Music From The Kingdom Of Kerry”
Jimmy Doyle (Melodeon) and Dan O’Leary (fiddle)
Shanachie 29007, and it was recorded in 1977.
https://thesession.org/recordings/1247

I particularly liked the treatment of the air “Banks of Sullane” on this one.
I assume it’s a song tune.

He finishes by playing the tune an octave down. With some tunes (including this one, in A) one can do this on the bottom buttons of a DG melodeon, providing they haven’t been chromaticised, or have their chromatic buttons further down still. It makes for something different.

This has just been reissued again by Topic as part of the label’s 70th anniversary celebration (TSCD 358).

The story behind “A Trip to the Jacks / Where Is the Cat” – someone was bound to ask about it, even if 20 years later. https://thesession.org/discussions/47777#comment956278

FWIW, there’s a jig that’s clearly related to “Where’s the Cat?” called “Huish the Cat” in O’Neill’s (Also Bunting from 1840, and called Hunt the Cat in other collections between them). It’s not exactly the same, but nearly. So while I believe Jackie named the first one, I’m not so sure about the second…

There are words as well:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Wallop_the_Cat
WALLOP THE CAT. Irish. The tune is a variant of “Whish Cat from under the Table.” O’Sullivan (1983) reports that a field recording of the tune was made from the singing and playing of Co. Cork accordion player Conchubhar Ó Laoghaire in 1979, with the following verse learned from his father and grandmother:

Wallop the cat, he’s fine and he’s fat,
Wallop the cat from under the table.
Wallop the cat, he’s fine and fat,
Wallop the cat from under the table.

The first strain of “Huish the Cat” is congate with the first strain of “Wallop the Cat.” See also “Hush the Cat,” “Kitchen with No Food (The),” “Tadeen the Fiddler,” “Wallop the Cat from under the Table,” “Wallop the Cat that’s Merry and Fat,” “Where is the Cat?”