Music At Matt Molloy’s

This album does a great job of capturing the atmosphere of a good session. Instead of silence between the tracks, we hear laughter, chat and even breaking glass.

The album features a string of great musicians so, needless to say, the musicianship is first rate. Mostly though, it’s just great fun.

I just got this one. I agree, they did a great job of capturing the feel of a real session.

In case, like me, you were interested in the titles for these they are Charlie Hunter and Peggy’s jig - found the dots at nigelgatherer.com

Also on this site too.

Track 9 has a tune called ‘Maggie on the Shore’, which follows ‘Miss Monaghan’

Has ‘Maggie’ got an alternative title? I can’t find reference to it anywhere else (although there is a tune on this site called ‘Molly on the shore’)

I’m after the abc or the dots for it (but don’t tell llig leahcim!)

Thanks

too late …. if I’ve said it once, I’ve said it 1,000 etc etc

The proper place for this, domnull, would be in “Requests”, wouldn’t it ?

kenny
Will do!

………. but I can’t put any comments or info about the tune there eg CD name, track number etc

http://www.irishtune.info/album/MMM/

I tried to find the dots using Google with no luck based on the first two bars from the irishtune website. But I did find two other recording in my collection by searching my iTunes library. The Salt Lake City celtic band Shanahy recorded it in a set starting with The Ewe With The Crooked Horn on the album Trip to Ballymena and Barry Kerr recorded it in a set starting with Silver Spear and ending with Miss Monaghan’s on the album Three Sisters.

Oops. Those tunes I mentioned were Molly, not Maggie on the Shore.

domnull - I have to agree with Michael here. If you have the recording, I don’t see what’s to stop you sitting down and listening to the tune over and over until you have it. You can of course write it down for yourself as you go along. That’s the way we all do it. [ I assume ]. Fair enough requesting a tune if you only have a name or you only heard it the once, and I know how daunting it can be transcribing a tune from Matt Molloy’s playing, but it’s not impossible. I’m very busy next week. If it hasn’t been posted by next weekend, I’ll look at it myself, but really, the best advice you’ll get is “have a go yourself”. You could even be the one to post it here, at “The Session”.

I think this tune is already under Larry RediCan

https://thesession.org/tunes/613

Is this the right one?

How do you establish the link to it from the Details page?

Does anyone know the actual names of the “Set of single jigs learned from Kevin’s Father/ John’s Grandfather” (track 15) on the Music at Matt Malloy’s album?

Alan Ng lists them as Kevin McHughes‘ No. 2 and John McHughes’ at irishtuneinfo: http://www.irishtune.info/album/MMM/

First tune is here: https://thesession.org/tunes/868

And the second tune is here: https://thesession.org/tunes/2664

Thanks!

(I already learned them from the cd 🙂 )

And that’s a great way to learn them.

tee he

Kenny, writing it down as you go and then actually learning what you’ve written is not really learning the tune by ear.

Whatever…………….but I would have thought you have to have the tune “by ear” before you could write it down.

“Whatever” ??

At that stage all you’ve done is match a note on your
instrument with the note you hear, you write it down,
then you learn the tune from what you’ve just written.
You’ve probably got a more accurate version of what you’re
looking for in the tune than you would have
If you had just picked the dots up from somewhere else.
But I think in the process you’ve missed an important step.

Have you ever noticed that tunes you learn this way (or from
some other wriiten source), if you make a mistake
you have to come back into it at some logical place in the tune,
you can’t just continue more fluently as you could
with tunes you learn by ear.

The link for Tommy Coen’s is wrong. It should be------> https://thesession.org/tunes/558

Can anyone identify the tunes on track 20?

“The Castle” redirects to the Kesh Jig, but actually they are playing Dick Gossip’s
---->https://thesession.org/tunes/408

Anyone know who the fiddle player is on Dr. Gilbert’s and Queen of the May? Sort of sounds like Ciarán Tourish…

The fiddler playing the Dr. Gilbert’s set with Paul McGrattan is actually Sean Smyth, who is now known as a member of the band Lunasa. He is from Kilmovee, Co. Mayo, which isn’t very far from Matt Molloy’s in Westport.

Is an absolute genius! The Queen of the May / Lord McDonalds / whatever ye call it tune after Dr. Gilbert is IMO the best tune on the album, the rythym, bazouki accompaniment, just beautiful

Track 10 - the reel following “Dr.Gilbert” is “Lord McDonald’s”, not the “Queen Of May”.

On track 2 of Music from Matt Molloy’s (Breda Smyth)…
First is Charlie Hunter
Third is McGurk’s

Does anyone know the name of the 2nd tune?

Thanks
Chris

I’ve changed the names of the jigs on track 2 so that they link to the tunes in the session.org. On the orginal recording the first two recordings are called “Cape Breton Jigs” #1 and #2.

Is that the right way to do it? I would have thought adding the exact name on the recording to the list of alternative titles would be a better idea.

Maybe that wouldn’t work in all cases, possibly this one too (see track 15!), in which case I would have thought that adding a comment and link would be more appropriate. Thoughts?

Regards
David

DavidT said, “Thoughts?”

Yes, I think you’re right, David, so I’ve changed track 2 again. Before the first two tunes were collectively listed as “Cape Breton Jigs”, but separating them makes more sense - thanks.