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Happy Hour

By Donal Murphy

  1. West Kerry
    Murphy’s
    Daly’s Mill
  2. John McGrath’s
    Kilcoon
    Milltown Session
  3. Abbeyfeale
    Knocknagree
    Cuz Teahan’s
  4. Tailor’s Twist
    The Strand
  5. King Of The Pipers
    Conneely’s
    Valentia
  6. Master Crowley’s
    The Rookery
    Shetland
  7. Caoineadh Uí Dhomhnaill
  8. Bidi An Muirnin
    Garravane
    Johnny O’Leary’s
  9. The Wily Old Bachelor
    Moving Cloud
    Moss Murphy’s
    Padraig O’Keefe’s
  10. Hale’s Rag
  11. O’Sullivan’s Clan March
    John Brady’s
    Bank Of Turf
  12. Gneeveguilla
    The Torn Petticoat
    Micho Russell’s
  13. The Tap Room
    The Plough And The Stars
    Bells Of Tipperary

Fourteen comments

What can you say? Just very tasty box playing.

Shouldn’t ‘Moss Murphy’s’ read ‘Boss Murphy’s’? And isn’t it ‘Gneeveguilla’?

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In fact it should Gneevegullia, or to be more precise Gniomh go Leith. I’ve copied the spelling on the album; this place name seems to get many spelling versions. This particular tune is not in the data base as far as I can find, being a slide under that name

and Moss Murphy’s is correct

Which "West Kerry" polka is the first tune?

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I know the tune but have no name for it myself

Except to say it is not the tune to which the data base links it

If it’s not in the database, is there any chance of you submitting it? :-)

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Speed Kills!

Lovely sounding reeds, and some ‘tasty playing’, it’s a shame he spoils it all by with manic speed. The poor rag is torn to shreds, and the slides and polkas suffer similar abuse…

However, those sweet reeds, the handling of the reels, jigs and hornpipes almost earn enough forgiveness for me to consider adding it to my list of wants… ;-)

And so it goes ~ it is now in our collection of listens. :-)

Nope, it isn’t. It seems a friend had lent me his copy for a spell but we are still without this one, though we have other recordings featuring his squeezin’… So it’s still on the wants list, but remains a ways down on that list, not a priority. 8-)