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Forty Years Of Irish Piping

By Seamus Ennis


  1. The Merry Blacksmith
    The Rainy Day
    The Silver Spear
  2. First You Must Learn The Grip
  3. The Bucks Of Oranmore
    The Sligo Maid Lament
  4. The Bucks Of Oranmore
    The Sligo Maid Lament
  5. The Praties Are Dug And The Frost Is All Over
  6. The Fox Chase
  7. If All The Young Maidens Were Blackbirds And Trushes
  8. The Copperplate
  9. The Silver Spear
    The Dublin
    Miss Monaghan
  10. The Salamanca
    Duke Gordon
  11. Don Niperi Septo
  12. Donegal
  13. Paddy O’Rafferty
    The Friar’s
  14. Speed The Plough
    The Merry Blacksmith
    The Forge Music
  15. Lark’s March
  16. Sixpenny Money
    When The Cock Crows, It Is Day
  17. Piper Of The Embers
    Down The Back Lane
    Sixpenny Money
    Paddy O’Rafferty
  18. I’ll Mend Your Pots And Kettles O
  19. The Broken Pledge
  20. Paddy Killoran’s
  21. Gentle Philip Fahy

Five comments

Re: Forty Years Of Pipering

Even If your are not a pipe player you need to listen to these recordings which start from 1947 (approx). Check out the evolution of this incredible piper. For example, there are two versions of the Bucks of Oranmore. The first version was recorded when Seamus was in his twenties. The second version was recorded in (I believe) the late fifties. Whewee simply mind boggling. Although the Bucks of Oranmore can be played on fiddle, whistle, flute, etc. in my mind the tune was created for the pipes. Seamus Ennis plays this BIG TUNE beyond normal human capacities!!

The notes producer Pat Sky wrote for the original LP aren’t exactly models of accuracy. The first take of the Bucks was recorded in 1948, the second in about 1952. Thus they don’t model Seamus’s development in quite the way Sky intended. Also, the first take was sped up so much Ennis’s C# pipes come out in E…thus the rushed sounding playing.
Get the RTE CD Return From Fingal for some more of Seamus’s superb playing.

Seamus Ennis: tune preceded by the Fox Chase?

On Seamus Ennis’ album “Forty Years of Irish Piping” he plays a jig before the Fox Chase. Yep I said that in the topic. Oh well. Doesn’t hurt to repeat =P

… Anyway, so yes, anyone know the name of it? … Or is it just something that he meant to be a part of the Fox Chase?

Cheers and having the best Uilleann kick EVER,
Armand

Mixed up names

On track 1, the first two tunes are swapped. In otherwords The Rainy Day is played first and The Merry Blacksmith is second, followed by The Silver Spear.